January 2012 Blog Posts (4)

Register Now! CTI PFAN Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing 2012 (AFRICEF-2)

CTI PFAN is pleased to announce the Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing 2012 (AFRICEF-2)

Date: Thursday 16 February, 2012

Venue: The Wanderers Club, 21 North Street, Illovo, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa

AFRICEF-2…

6 - 9 March 2012, Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg



Zenith Energy is presenting two workshops:

•     a wind resource assessment and

•     the design of horizontal axis wind turbine rotor.

Have you considered Wind Energy? Found it to complicated ... not true, if it is understood. Zenith Energy, in conjunction with Dr Alexandre Costa, researcher from the Wind Energy Unit, division of Renewable Energy, CIEMAT, Spanish…

What the developed world is failing to understand is that as Africa rises out of poverty, affordable and accessible energy becomes necessary to sustain this development, argues Shaun Nel, Programme Director of the Energy Intensive User Group.



Equally, Africa needs the developed world to invest in climate change technology and projects which will allow it to develop at an increased pace without placing additional pressures on greenhouse gas emission levels.



What the…

By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com



First, the bad news.



Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five people are completely without power. According to the UN, over 600 million Africans currently do not have access to electric power. A depressing 70 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is living without…