Support of community farming
Globeleq South Africa, which owns a portfolio of eight renewable energy power plants, has a keen focus on funding the development of community...
Support of community farming
Improving quality of Early Childhood Development
Improving quality of Early Childhood Development
Research demonstrates that Early Childhood Development (ECD) is at the heart of improving our country’s level of education and the best way to do...
Wind industry internship programme
Wind industry internship programme
With the aim of encouraging young professionals to join the energy sector, the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA), recently signed a...
Business Hub launches in Loeriesfontein
Business Hub launches in Loeriesfontein
Loeriesfontein community members, together with key stakeholders, gathered for an event to mark the opening of the town’s first business hub,...
EnergyDRIVE arrives in the Western Cape
EnergyDRIVE arrives in the Western Cape
The custom-built EnergyDRIVE truck will spend three days, hosted by in the beautiful Witzenberg area, to teach high school learners from Ceres...
Stimulating the engineering skills pipeline
Stimulating the engineering skills pipeline
Since the inception of the Globeleq Scholarship Fund, twenty-nine engineering students have benefited from support, funded by Droogfontein Solar...
Highlights
Biodiversity mitigating measures are saving bats
Eastern Cape. Working in collaboration with local wind farms, the Greater Kromme Stewardship (GKS) initiative, which focuses on conservation in the Kouga region, has noted the positive strides being made by some of the wind farms with regard to creating no net loss to biodiversity from their operations. Through the installation of acoustic deterrent devices on selected turbines, two wind farms in particular are seeing significantly reduced bat fatalities. For some turbines this reduction can be as much as between 80% and 100%. Pilot studies began in 2018, with Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm...