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2006 Engineering News Today - World Bank sees offgrid energy projects a boon
Investments in offgrid energy generation projects are the quickest way to get electricity to the 1,6-billion people in the world without lights, a World Bank official said on Wednesday.
2006 NuRa: A Success Story for Rural Energy Service Delivery
The South African Government initiative, conceived in 1999, to provide alternate energy in the form of solar home systems to over 300 000 rural households was viewed by many as a unique approach to solving rural energy needs. Others saw this as a pipe dream that would never realize it’s potential. Since then the programme has had many ups and downs. This paper looks at the programme as a whole but more specifically at NuRa (Pty) Ltd, one of the appointed concession companies, and how it has slowly gone about turning Government’s dream of universal access to clean energy into a reality. Conclusions are drawn and suggestions on the way forward are proposed.
2006 Balancing Climate Change With the UK’s Energy Security Challenge
The Energy Review published by the UK Government in July has captured headlines due to the green light given for new nuclear power stations. However, the review is much more wide ranging than this and seeks to address the difficulties raised by climate change and carbon emissions while balancing the challenges facing the United Kingdom in respect of energy security over the next 20-30 years. This update summarises the most significant elements of the review.
2006 Regulations regarding fuel specifications and Standards - 28 June 2006
Issued by the Department of Minerals and Energy, this document outlines the regulations regarding fuel specifications and standards.
2006 Hub for Postgraduate Programme in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies awarded to Stellenbosch University - 5 June 2006
Stellenbosch University has been awarded the responsibility to act as the hub of a Postgraduate Programme in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies by the newly formed South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI), a division of the Central Energy Fund (CEF). The hub will be supplemented by a number of research chairs forming the spokes of a hub and spoke model.
2006 Solar Thermal Market grows 10 times faster than overall economy - 24 May 2006
This year’s edition of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme’s, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contributions to the Energy Supply 2004, reports that the solar thermal sector has become a market leader in the past five years, growing 10 times faster than the overall economy. The annual collector yield (energy produced) in 2004 was 58,117 GWh – an oil equivalent of 9.3 billion liters and annual avoidance of 25.4 million tons of CO2 emissions.
2006 Inter Solar 2006
Inter Solar 2006, Europe’s largest trade fair for solar technology, was held in Freiburg Germany from 22 – 24 June. There were 454 exhibitors in 26,000 m² of show area covering most aspects of solar energy. The one disappointing area was battery technology, but when you evaluate that the German market is the largest PV market and it’s nearly all grid connected (±98%) then batteries are not needed unlike most of the African market which uses battery storage.
2006 Press Release: International Renewable Energy Alliance
G8 has to give full priority to renewable energy. Appropriate frameworks and institutions are necessary. The International Renewable Energy Alliance, an alliance of the three leading international renewable energy organisations, the International Hydropower Association IHA, the International Solar Energy Society ISES and the World Wind Energy Association WWEA, calls upon the heads of states and governments of the G8 countries to give full priority to renewable energy deployment.
2006 South Africa, Bioethanol and GMOs
A briefing document by Mariam Mayet (African Centre for Biosaftey) on "South Africa, Bioethanol and GMO's".
2006 New Energy Efficiency Bodies Created
The Western Cape electricity crisis and rising international oil prices have pushed energy efficiency to the top of the agenda.
2006 Commercialisation of Revolutionary Solar Technology
Solar energy in South Africa broke new ground yesterday with the signing of an agreement to commercially produce a revolutionary new homegrown solar technology.
2006 SESSA Manages Residential Eskom DSM Solar Water Heater Project
The Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa (SESSA) has been appointed to manage a Demand Side Management (DSM) project on behalf of Eskom Research.
2006 Africa Middle East sustainable construction projects receive prizes in Holcim Awards
Zurich/Johannesburg, October 14, 2005. USD 220,000 in prize money was presented to the best submissions from Africa Middle East in the Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects. The competition run by the Swiss Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction in collaboration with five of the world’s leading technical universities aims to promote sustainable approaches to the built environment.
2006 Israel at a Crossroads
Israel is the "Land of Milk and Honey" but Not of Abundant Energy Resources Energy development in Israel is today at a crossroads which may change the face of the economy.