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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)... 

More From Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future

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... 

Perennial doubters and future of renewables

By: Saliem Fakir     2nd September 2011 It is somewhat tired argument to suggest that renewables will make no progress as a technology and that they will never compete with coal or nuclear. 

There are still many unknowns about shale gas extraction in the Karoo

By: Saliem Fakir     5th August 2011 I recently attended what is probably the most insightful conference I have ever attended – not because it was attended mostly by industry players... 

SA needs an independent system operator 

By: Saliem Fakir     8th July 2011 Previously, I noted some reservations about the idea of an independent system and market operator (ISMO). 

Do green jobs threaten other jobs?

By: Saliem Fakir     10th June 2011 You have probably heard this before: green industries will steal jobs from other sectors. Superficial logic invites superficial conclusions. But... 

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