“The Boards of Directors at Transnet and Eskom have agreed to second Transnet Group Chief Financial Officer, Anoj Singh, as acting Chief Financial Officer to Eskom for a period of six months,” said the boards of Eskom and Transnet.
Cogeneration body concerned at omission of CHP
COSPP – COGEN Europe chief Fiona Riddoch has expressed her concern at the failure of the European Commission to include power and heating in its ‘Summer Package’ announcement this week.
The announcement provided detail on next steps for the Energy Union and Riddoch says clearer links needed to be made between power and heating & cooling.
The European Commission Summer Package (comprising a Communication on a new energy market design, a communication on a new deal for energy consumers, a proposal for the review of the energy labelling directive and a proposal for EU-ETS 2021-2030) aims at advancing the thinking on how to address important issues in the existing EU legislative landscape, preparing the way for a legislative cycle in 2016.
Eastern Petroleum unit budgets P13B for three biomass facilities in Visayas, Mindanao
Business World Online – Caraga Renewable Energy Corp. is currently working on a 23.5-megawatt (MW) biomass power plant in Agusan del Norte that will serve as its maiden project.
But Eastern Petroleum Chief Executive Officer Fernando L. Martinez said the company is looking at two more biomass projects — one each in Visayas and Mindanao.
India’s per capita electricity consumption touches 1010 kWh
Live Mint – In an indication of growing appetite for electricity in India, the country’s per capita electricity consumption has reached 1010 kilowatt-hour (kWh) in 2014-15, compared with 957 kWh in 2013-14 and 914.41 kWh in 2012-13, according to the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), India’s apex power sector planning body.
“The per capita electricity consumption reached 1010 kWh some time back,” said a senior government official, requesting anonymity.
But experts are far from enthused from the increasing consumption figure.
How to save on your Eskom electricity bill
My Broadband – Eskom’s acting CEO Brian Molefe has given South Africans two options: pay more for electricity or face more load shedding – which will damage the economy.
On 8 May, Eskom made an urgent application to Nersa to increase the electricity tariff by 25.3% for the 2015/2016 financial year. This included the 12.69% price increase Nersa had already approved.
Local municipalities have also requested price increases, with Mookgophong municipality in Limpopo applying for a 35% tariff hike.
Transnet’s CFO seconded to Eskom
Cape Business News – Transnet’s Group Chief Financial Officer Anoj Singh has been seconded to Eskom as its acting Chief Financial Officer.
South Africa to launch nuclear procurement in ‘second quarter’
Engineering News – South Africa would commence a procurement process in the second quarter of the current financial year to select a “strategic partner or partners” to build 9 600 MW of new nuclear capacity, Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson announced on Tuesday.
Ambitious on-site power plan for UK’s biggest turkey farmer
COSPP – Bernard Matthews turkey farms has launched a programme to become 100 per cent green energy self-sufficient by 2016.
The programme is delivering nine large on-site wind turbines, two solar farms covering 90 acres, the UK’s largest single biomass project with 229 155-199kw boilers, an anaerobic digestion plant, a £3.6m investment in energy efficient technologies in its factories and another 2 MW biomass plant for a feed mill. It is also developing a second 500m³/hour anaerobic plant to supply gas to the national grid.
The Guardian reports that the UK’s largest turkey farmer has built biomass boilers to heat its 248 sheds.
Solar energy ‘could power all Scottish electricity supplies’
BBC News – About 35,000 homes and 600 business premises in Scotland have solar panels.
Data from WeatherEnergy showed that sunshine in Edinburgh in April generated more electricity than is used in an average home – a total of 113%.
In Aberdeen the figure was 111%, 106% in Glasgow and 104% in Inverness.
For homes fitted with solar hot water panels, there was enough sunshine in the cities to cover average usage.
Why Elon Musk might just change the world
Tech Central – Elon Musk’s keynote address last week, at which he took the wraps off a much-anticipated battery technology, was fascinating to watch.
Firstly, here was a South African-born entrepreneur and inventor — his accent still giving away his heritage, despite 27 years living in Canada and the US — standing on a stage and attracting the interest of millions around the world.
The Pretoria-educated Musk, 43, who left South Africa in 1988, when he was 17, is now regularly compared to great inventors like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Some have called him the next Steve Jobs.
