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Vanessa Ndlovu, Roula Inglesi-Lotz
Optimisation and diversification of South Africa?s energy generation mix is fundamental to meeting its developmental goals and enhancing the crucially important security of supply. South Africa should investigate means to diversify its generating capacit...
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Siyuan Chen, Zao Zhang, Cheng Wang, Lifeng Tan, Huanjie Liu, Hong Yuan, Rui Zhang and Rui Hu
Photovoltaic (PV) power generation is emerging as a key aspect of the global shift towards a more sustainable energy mix. Nevertheless, existing assessment models predominantly concentrate on predicting the overall capacity of PV power generation, often ...
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Yun-Sheng Tsai, Chi-Wen Chen, Cheng-Chien Kuo and Hung-Cheng Chen
In recent years, the escalating electricity demand in Taiwan has heightened the prominence and discourse surrounding the issue of power supply. With the enactment of the European climate law, global commitment to achieving net-zero emissions has gained m...
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K. Imasiku, E. Ntagwirumugara
The mining industry in Zambia is energy-intensive, with hydro energy providing the required energy. But other sources of energy may need to be added, because hydro energy is subject to good rain patterns, threatened by the spectre of climate change, as a...
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Ana Rodrigues, Denise Machado and Tomaz Dentinho
The Azores Regional Government, through the Sustainable Energy Action Plan for the Azorean Islands, assumed that by the year 2018, 60% of electricity would be generated from renewable energy sources. Nevertheless, by increasing renewable energy sources s...
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Kenneth J. Gondwe, Sosten S. Chiotha, Theresa Mkandawire, Xianli Zhu, Jyoti Painuly, John L. Taulo
Crop residues have been undervalued as a source of renewable energy to displace coal in the national energy mix for greenhouse emission reduction in Malawi. Switching to crop residues as an alternative energy source for energy-intensive industries such a...
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K. Akom, T. Shongwe, M.K. Joseph
The Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) was designed to consider South Africa?s energy needs from 2015 to 2050, as a guide for energy structural savings and the development of energy policy. The main aim of the Department of Energy is to ensure the security of ...
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Gordon Rae, Gareth Erfort
In the context of the Anthropocene, the decoupling of carbon emissions from electricity generation is critical. South Africa has an ageing coal power fleet, which will gradually be decommissioned over the next 30 years. This creates substantial opportuni...
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Philipp A. Trotter, Roy Maconachie, Marcelle C. McManus
Southern Africa?s electrification is at odds with United Nations goals to provide modern energy for all by 2030. Electricity planning, a crucial tool to optimally match future supply and demand, has largely focused on minimising costs in southern Africa,...
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Chris Blok, Caroline Van der Salm, Jantineke Hofland-Zijlstra, Marta Streminska, Barbara Eveleens, Inge Regelink, Lydia Fryda and Rianne Visser
Peat is used as rooting medium in greenhouse horticulture. Biochar is a sustainable alternative for the use of peat, which will reduce peat derived carbon dioxide emissions. Biochar in potting soil mixtures allegedly increases water storage, nutrient sup...
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