Industry uses more energy in the form of heat than as electricity, giving South African companies the perfect opportunity to exploit the country’s abundant solar and wind resources to produce power and heat for the re-industrialisation of the country. Speaking at the launch of two of Southern African Solar Thermal Training and Demonstration Initiative’s (Soltrain’s) […]
A new power generation technology could provide baseload power while reducing CO2 emissions. Many countries have accepted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement on mitigating climate change. The agreement, which came into force on 4 November 2016, seeks to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by […]
EnergyNest’s thermal energy storage system, Heatcrete, ensures that waste heat, a widely untapped energy reserve, can be converted effectively. Once stored, the time-shifted waste heat can be used in a variety of ways: to provide process steam, to generate own power or to stabilise entire power grids. It has many advantages, the main one being a […]
Rob Davies, the minister of trade and industry, opened a clean energy power plant at Anglo American Platinum’s Waterval platinum smelter complex near Rustenburg recently. The power plant recovers energy from the heat generated by the smelter and converts it to electrical energy which is used on-site to reduce the company’s demand from Eskom. […]
Surplus heat from industrial processes is by and large an untapped resource which is just waiting to be discovered. A joint cooperation project between the University of Bayreuth, the East Bavarian Technical College Amberg-Weiden and the company Deprag Schulz has developed a new and innovative ORC mini power generator – supported by the Bavarian Research Foundation. […]
