Most of us remember the feeling of sitting in class, too afraid to ask a question because we’ll look like an idiot in front of our peers. It’s even worse when we’re adults, especially when there’s an added layer of not knowing enough about the product in which you want to invest and potentially losing […]

Shopping centres, large corporations, mines, and factories ─ listen up! Not only did our Minister of Energy, Jeff Radebe, give NERSA the right to license 500MW worth of small-scale embedded generation installations without signing it off, but he also lifted the size restriction from 1MW to 10MW. This is exactly the size of solar installation […]

There are people in South Africa who claim that renewable energy will take away the jobs of those who work for Eskom and the coal industry in general. In a country where unemployment is only on the rise, it is understandable that many people would be concerned that even more people would lose their jobs, […]

Recently, nuclear power appeared on the radar screens of South Africans when words such as “nuclear,” “Russia,” and “Guptas” were said in the same breath. Not to mention the little case of the government being prepared to lie to the public about the estimated costs of their nuclear deal. But while there are those who […]

by Wessel Wessels Is the solar industry ready to do business in the future? With a background in ICT, I have seen disruption in the industry around ten to fifteen years ago and seen first-hand what happened to companies that didn’t align to the new operating environment in the case of the renewable energy space, […]

Imagine a world where we could, without interruption, harness the sun’s energy to meet every day needs in cities across the world. With no greenhouse gases omitted and no water polluted, imagine a clean energy solution that would begin to protect the planet we live on. In the last two centuries, we’ve done just that…it’s […]