Featured in Solar superhero – 06-2012

More than green dreams

South Africa: As the PV industry feels the negative reverberations in Europe as a result of the cuts to the feed-in tariffs, South Africa has new PV plans in the pipeline and seeks to further the growth of solar generated electricity and aid its manufacturing sector.

The demand for energy in Africa has been on the rise and utilities have been struggling to keep up supply. South Africa is one country where acute power shortages have called for the need to rethink the direction of energy development. The South African Department of Energy’s (DoE) white paper on renewable energy (RE) set …

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