Africa: Connecting Home Solar and Electric Vehicle Batteries to the Grid Could Boost South Africa’s Clean Energy and Strengthen the Electricity System

Africa: Connecting Home Solar and Electric Vehicle Batteries to the Grid Could Boost South Africa’s Clean Energy and Strengthen the Electricity System

South Africa has committed to reaching phasing out human-caused carbon pollution by 2050. To get there, it needs to push as much renewable energy as possible into the national grid. The country is the world’s 15th largest carbon polluter. It’s one of only a handful of countries still heavily dependent on burning coal to generate…

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Telecoms industry drags home affairs minister to court

Telecoms industry drags home affairs minister to court

ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi Mobile industry lobby group the Association for Comms & Technology (ACT) has filed an application with the high court in Pretoria to have regulations introduced by home affairs minister Leon Schreiber, in which he hiked the fee for accessing the national population register database by as much as 6 500%, overturned. ACT…

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Africa: Connecting Home Solar and Electric Vehicle Batteries to the Grid Could Boost South Africa’s Clean Energy and Strengthen the Electricity System

Africa: Coming Home to Roost

The conversation surrounding former President Donald Trump’s cavalier and intransigent insistence on acquiring Greenland because “the US needs it for national security” is a stark, almost clinical, illustration of a long-brewing hypocrisy. The discussion is tempered, academic, even amused. It focuses on the historical inaccuracy of his claims, the diplomatic faux pas, the logistical absurdity….

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