Solar water heating systems – one at an old age home and the other at an orphanage – went live in March this year thanks to the initiative of SESSA member Holms and Friends and the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).
Two locally developed biogas digesters – the one capable of producing enough biogas every day to keep a single gas plate burning for 4 hours – have earned their inventor second place in the SA Cleantech Competition.
SESSA member Holms and Friends, formerly Omnibus Engineering, has installed a solar water heating system at the University of Pretoria (UP) which – with a total 672m2 collector surface – is the biggest glazed installation in Southern Africa.
A SESSA member’s corporate social outreach programme is delivering hot water and electricity savings to two underprivileged communities in Kwa-Zulu Natal.Renu Solar, a division of Renu Holdings, focuses on providing renewable and sustainable energy solutions and is working with the Ingane Yami Children’s Village in Shongweni and the Lungisasa Indlela Village (LIV) in Verulam to reduce their reliance on the grid.
SESSA member Pacific Solar Technologies has provided the collectors for an ambitious solar water heating project in China.
Harald Schulz, a member of the Sustainable Energy Society of South Africa (SESSA), portfolio holder of Young SESSA and CEO of Suntoy, has developed the Consol Solar Jar with Consol Glass.
SESSA member, Selected Energy, has installed solar energy systems at two South African schools: in Bloemfontein, some 26 solar water heaters expected to pay for themselves within three years were installed at the Martie du Plessis School for Grade R to Grade 12 special needs students while a 300-litre Solahart solar water heater was donated to the Save the Children (SCF) centre in Tjakastad, Mpumalanga.
SESSA member Dr Anthony Keen of Cape Town has been named – for the second time – as the winner of the Energy Savings in Households category at the 2011 eta Awards.
