A leading radio show recently hosted the DBSA to discuss the low investment, low economic growth (LI-LG) challenge in South Africa. This is a complex but totally solvable challenge.
Plans for strengthening the country's electricity transmission grid and further increasing renewable energy generating capacity are not yet in alignment.
Independent power producer and licensed trader NOA has amplified a recent call for the publication of a Cabinet-endorsed electricity reform roadmap
Strategic procurement and clean energy seen as key to manufacturing revival. Decarbonisation and switching to renewable energy can be key drivers of competitiveness.
Despite the manufacturing sector’s structural decline over the last 30 years there are various positives that bode well for industrial recovery and growth.
While technically resilient, the South African metal fabrication sector is structurally constrained, with its future contingent on its embracing modernisation, sustainability and skills development
Middle East conflict is boosting interest in shale exploration as countries including Algeria, the UAE, Mexico and Australia pursue energy security and supply diversification, according to Wood Mackenzie.
Recycling associations call for intervention from the Competition Commission on scrap metal policy.
Investment commitments by South African and green energy renewables investors featured prominently at the sixth South Africa Investment Conference, with combined pledges of more than R50-billion announced.
The global total of low-carbon hydrogen production capacity has grown significantly over the past few years, but the sector remains constrained.