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28 May 2012
                       
 
 
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The Cost of Our Energy (January 2012)
ENERGY
We often speak of ‘cheap’ and ‘expensive’ forms of energy. In the South African context, coal is commonly regarded as cheap – it is abundant, low-tech, and well-understood as the fuel for...
 
 
02 Dec 2010
 
IRP2010’s plans for renewable capacity ‘ambitious’ – energy economist
SA's POWER PLAN
The large renewable capacity indicated in the balanced and low-carbon scenarios of the second Integrated Resource Plan or IRP2010, might be somewhat “ambitious”, energy economist Jean-Pierre...
 
 
26 Oct 2010
 
Wind scale-up in IRP2010 sufficient to spur localisation - DoE
POWER PLAN
The proposed scale-up of renewable energy in the draft integrated resource plan, or IRP2010, which was currently out for public comment, is sufficient to stimulate localisation and industrial...
 
 
18 Oct 2010
 
Solar park not out in the cold, government insists
RENEWABLE ENERGY
The South African government has stressed that there is sufficient "flexibility" in the formulation of the country's electricity master plan to accommodate a vision for a large-scale solar park in...
 
 
22 Jul 2010
 
 
 
Daily podcast - July 22, 2010
PODCAST
In today's podcast, SA's wind and carbon-capture atlases are to be published in August; UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon plans a meeting on disarmament; and, SAHRC chairperson Lawrence Mushwana is...
 
 
07 Jul 2010
 
Gulf Oil Spill Good for Africa
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Tragic as it is, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is good news for Africa - increasingly the new frontier for oil and gas exploration worldwide. Now estimated to be spewing up to 60 000 barrels...
 
 
14 May 2010
 
New SA energy plan running behind schedule – DDG
ENERGY
Progress on the much-anticipated integrated resource plan, or IRP2, which will provide a power investment and energy-mix road map for the next 20 years, is running behind schedule, Department of...
 
 
07 Apr 2010
 
Government ‘mindful’ of Chancellor House concerns
ELECTRICITY FUNDING
Government is "mindful" of concerns raised about the Chancellor House-Hitachi contract related to Eskom's loan application to the World Bank.
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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