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Amazon has signed a merger agreement that will see it acquire iRobot, the company best known for its robotic vacuum Roomba...

The pilot skills programme for solar PV technicians will be rolled out at technical colleges across the country.

Only nine out of 26 priorities undertaken by Operation Vulindlela have been achieved so far.

To account for the government's decision to double the procurement of renewable energy capacity for Bid Window 6, the submission deadline has been extended.

Minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele said government is focused on adding as much new generation capacity to the grid as possible, as quickly as possible.

In an effort to get power to the grid as rapidly as possible, government has announced a massive reduction in the local content requirements for Bid Window 5 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme

Government has to balance energy supply needs with its ambitions to drive local industrialisation in the renewable energy sector.

Nedbank Group wants to almost double its lending to green energy projects in South Africa over the next two years.

The president earlier this week outlined several proposed reforms to bring an end to load shedding and expand grid capacity. But there are legal and practical implications before these steps can be rolled out.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new plan to address South Africa’s electricity crisis has been widely panned in the media as being ‘too little too late’ or lacking details or timeframes, but Mark Swilling, co-director of the Centre for Sustainability Transitions at Stellenbosch University,...