South Africa has three favourable structural characteristics that potentially give it a “first mover advantage” to become a global green-hydrogen leader, Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler argued in his address during a ‘Hydrogen Economy Discussion’ facilitated by well-known mining personality Bernard https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/south-africas-green-hydrogen-first-mover-opportunity-based-on-three-structural-advantages-2021-09-08
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Energy and chemicals group Sasol, which aims to become a leader in South Africa’s promising green hydrogen industry, reports that research advancements have been achieved that are supportive of the conversion of hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO2) into green jet fuel and chemicals. https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/sasol-uct-confirm-progress-on-catalysts-that-convert-hydrogen-co2-into-green-jet-fuel-2021-09-06
Environment advocacy organisations Greenpeace Africa, groundWork and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have expressed deep concerns that the South African government did not participate in a Ministerial meeting on a proposed global plastics treaty held this month.https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/environmental-organisations-concerned-about-government-no-show-at-plastics-treaty-meeting-2021-09-02
Agricultural sustainability company Trace & Save has reaffirmed in a case study that a lower environmental impact is directly linked with higher profitability in the South African dairy farming industry. The company, in partnership with Nedbank and the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa.https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/study-confirms-low-enviro-impact-dairy-farming-equals-higher-profitability-2021-09-01
Heavy rain over the weekend has caused dunes at a decommissioned landfill site to shift, spilling litter onto the beach at Witsand in Cape Town. City of Cape Town Mayco Member for Water and Waste Xanthea Limberg said the recent heavy rainfall caused the mobile dunes, which covered the waste, to https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/litter-spills-onto-cape-town-beach-as-heavy-rain-causes-breach-at-old-landfill-site-2021-08-31
The legislation has not caught up with where the gas industry needs it to be, says gas producer Renergen CEO and MD Stefano Marani. Technical aspects that are critical to companies’ decision-making have not yet been addressed, with industries in the gas sector consequently unable to develop tohttps://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/potential-gas-economy-casualty-of-legislation-delays-2021-08-13
Africa-focused energy company Kibo Energy has satisfied all conditions required, and completed an agreement with South Africa-based Industrial Green Energy Solutions (IGES), to jointly develop a portfolio of waste-to-energy projects in South Africa. The companies entered into an agreement to https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/kibo-forms-working-relationship-with-iges-to-pursue-south-african-waste-to-energy-projects-2021-07-30
Environmental phenomena such as climate change and its manifestations, including extreme weather events, are featuring more prominently on the risk radar of investors, banks and commercial farmers, as agricultural activity intensifies in order to provide sufficient food for a growing population https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/rooting-for-resilience-2021-07-09
JSE-listed Sasol and the State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) have signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly advance South Africa’s green-hydrogen economy.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has reached a decision on the three applications which were submitted in October 2020 by Karpowership SA (Pty) Ltd for an environmental authorisation for the development of gas to power via powerships.
