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Solar installations to continue growing ...

Wednesday, 05 February 2020

Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade, global information provider IHS Markit reports in its ‘2020 Global Photovoltaic PV Demand Forecast’. IHS estimates new yearly installations to increase by 14% year-on-year to 142 GW this year. The 142 GW is seven times that of the entire installed capacity of 20 GW at the start of the prior decade in 2010, the company says. It adds that the growth has also been substantial in terms of geographic reach. In 2010, seven countries mainly in Europe had an installed capacity of more than 1 GW of solar power generation. IHS Markit expects more than 43 countries to meet that threshold by the end of 2020....

Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade, global information provider IHS Markit reports in its ‘2020...

Sanral’s new standard contract exposes c...

Wednesday, 05 February 2020

Amendments to the South African National Roads Agency Limited’s Sanral’s standard contract have made it significantly more difficult for contractors to deal with disruptions related to the construction mafia, warns construction and technology law specialist MDA Attorneys. The term ‘construction mafia’ refers to local communities and business forums which disrupt construction sites, often violently, with demands that they are awarded work on the specific contract a process which often results in costly delays, notes MDA. MDA says Sanral has added five conditions to the clause on which contractors rely when dealing with strikes and riots, including construction-mafia type circumstances....

Amendments to the South African National Roads Agency Limited’s Sanral’s standard contract have made it significantly more difficult for contractors...

Solar installations to continue growing ...

Friday, 17 January 2020

Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade, global information provider IHS Markit reports in its ‘2020 Global Photovoltaic PV Demand Forecast’.IHS estimates new yearly installations to increase by 14% year-on-year to 142 GW this year.The 142 GW is seven times that of the entire installed capacity of 20 GW at the start of the prior decade in 2010, the company says.It adds that the growth has also been substantial in terms of geographic reach. In 2010, seven countries mainly in Europe had an installed capacity of more than 1 GW of solar power generation.IHS Markit expects more than 43 countries to meet that threshold by the end of 2020.“Another...

Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade, global information provider IHS Markit reports in its ‘2020...

Clarity on emergency procurement of 3 00...

Friday, 17 January 2020

Hundreds of potential respondents to a request for information RFI issued in December by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy DMRE for supply and demand solutions to South Africa’s prevailing power deficit descended on Centurion on Wednesday for a briefing ahead of the submission deadline of January 31.In what became an almost standing-room-only affair, senior representatives from the Independent Power Producer IPP Office Maduna Ngobeni, Pervelan Govender and Lena Mangondo urged potential developers to provide fresh and detailed information on short-term, as well as medium- to long-term, projects that could assist in helping to close an immediate supply shortfall of some 3 000 MW...

Hundreds of potential respondents to a request for information RFI issued in December by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy DMRE for...