Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
The challenge of fossil fuel binding constraints
By: Saliem Fakir 18th January 2013 Despite the failure of the recent round of the Doha climate change talks, the national project on a low-carbon transition requires continued impetus. →
LTMS and the challenge of long-term technology planning
By: Saliem Fakir 7th December 2012 Many moons ago, South Africa did pioneering work on how best we can meet our international climate mitigation obligations. →
Negotiating the CSP maze
By: Saliem Fakir 9th November 2012 I attended a recent workshop jointly hosted by the Academy of Science of South Africa and the German National Academy of Sciences (which is known... →
Will renewables IPPs work?
By: Saliem Fakir 5th October 2012 The independent power producer (IPP) process has an explicit specification that communities should be co-owners in any renewables projects in terms... →
Are we on the cusp of a power grid revolution?
By: Saliem Fakir 7th September 2012 Is distributed generation the future and the central grid old hat? There is a great facility in convention: its longevity of presence gives it... →
National interests are barriers to regional energy integration
By: Saliem Fakir 3rd August 2012 Intra-regional trade between South Africa and Africa is growing but still low compared to other regions in the world. Tomorrow’s economic prospects... →
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. →