About 215 000 solar water heater (SWH) systems have been installed nationally to date as part of the South African National SWH Strategy and Implementation Plan of 2009.

The City of Cape Town has initiated a net-metering pilot project to allow domestic energy producers to feed electricity back into the grid, Dr Anthony Keen told an audience at a South African National Energy Association meeting in Cape Town on Tuesday.

This signals another significant step in Super Group’s drive to improve its environmental performance across its business.

“South Africa now needs to take the lead on the African continent for the use of renewable forms of energy.”

Climate finance practitioners and regulators have urged South African developers of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects to finalise their applications for registration of such projects with the United Nations during the first quarter of 2012, or face being excluded from the key European market.

For a long time, concentrating solar power (CSP) was seen as a cutting-edge renewables technology that would best meet South Africa’s energy security needs and support the creation of new industries and technology innovation.

This is an exciting time in the development of renewable energy in South Africa says Claire Volkwyn.

There is great concern within the mining industry about the sustainability of resources owing to climate change and the ever-increasing demand on energy supplies.