At Vedanta Resources’ Gamsberg mine in the Northern Cape, Zest WEG Group is working closely with lead contractor ELB Engineering Services as a preferred supplier to standardise on its range of transformers and motors across a number of on-site applications. The Gamsberg project is South Africa’s largest current greenfields mining project and will exploit one of […]
Loeriesfontein wind farm and Khobab wind farm have announced the commencement of their 20-year commercial operations, a milestone they have achieved on schedule, on budget and without a single lost-time incident. With a generation capacity of 140 MW each, these two neighbouring wind farms combined make up the largest single expanse of wind turbines in […]
The Northern Cape GISSA Region was relaunched on 24 February 2016, in Kimberley at the Francis Baard District Municipality. The revival of GISSA in the region involved two years of negotiations with key personnel working with GI Sc. activities in the province. GISSA National Chairperson, Morena Letsosa, attended the relaunch accompanied by the GISSA National Secretary, Dr. Manie Brynand. The […]
In July 2015 the Financial Services Directorate received a request from the Northern Cape Department of Education to present a training session with the sole purpose of addressing a dilemma that the department recently found itself in. It was discovered that Grade 12 learners have not been attempting exam questions relating to GIS in Geography […]
This month’s letters are from readers who wrote to us about small modular reactors, and a solar farm near his town. EE Publishers’ new website details are outlined below. This month’s winning letter! Regarding SMRs being the ideal nuclear solution Sir, Thanks for the interesting article, published in Energize, December 2013, titled “SMRs: The […]
