Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Planned ISMO unlikely to be panacea for power sector’s woes
By: Saliem Fakir 29th June 2012 The proposal to introduce an independent system and market operator (ISMO) into South Africa’s power generation sector seems to have found favour... →
Renewables: facts and fiction 
By: Saliem Fakir 8th June 2012 There are so many nonsensical comments about renewables and, surprisingly, even very intelligent people also make unfounded and unintelligent... →
Are airline carbon levy wars a sign of things to come?
By: Saliem Fakir 18th May 2012 The European Union (EU) has unilaterally declared that it wants all planes entering or leaving the EU territory to pay an emissions tax. The bloc... →
Does thorium have a future as an alternative to uranium?
By: Saliem Fakir 6th April 2012 I recently at a thorium conference in Cape Town hosted by the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. →
Alternative renewables ownership models come under the spotlight at Numsa conference
By: Saliem Fakir 2nd March 2012 The National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) recently hosted an international conference on alternative models of ownership for renewables other than... →
What should be done about concentrating solar power
By: Saliem Fakir 10th February 2012 For a long time, concentrating solar power (CSP) was seen as a cutting-edge renewables technology that would best meet South Africa’s energy... →
Will the planet be saved?
By: Saliem Fakir 20th January 2012 Fourteen days of deliberations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seventeeth Conference of the Parties (COP 17)... →
COP 17 – waiting for light at end of tunnel
By: Saliem Fakir 2nd December 2011 Some predictions are easy and others require a savant’s wisdom to penetrate the unseen world. One can be sure the outcome of the United Nations... →
Learning from the Chinese approach to carbon taxation
By: Saliem Fakir 25th November 2011 The Australian government recently just managed to squeeze through carbon tax legislation. The Australian system starts off with a fixed price,... →
Thinking of value-add in a way that guarantees future of sustainability
By: Saliem Fakir 7th October 2011 The world was once run on three big economic engines: Europe, North America and Japan. These engines of growth are slowing down but three or four... →
