Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale Support Green Building Practices
July 26th, 2009 | Categories: Human Settlements · South Africa | Tags: affordable housing, green building, human settlements, South Africa
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According to Georgia Institute of Technology School of Civil and Environmental Engineering professor and visiting research and innovation chair at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Mulalo Doyoyo “We have created Retecza to build auto-nomous and sustainable villages for people, focusing on next-generation energy supply, green building and construction, as well as next-generation transportation and technology concept centres,” Doyoyo concludes. In the context of Minister Sexwale’s new Human Settlements policy, this is a key component for providing affordable housing to the masses throughout South Africa.
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Solar Water Heaters: The Virtual Power Stations
July 22nd, 2009 | Categories: Cleantech · Infrastructure | Tags: electricity, Eskom, peak load, power crisis, solar water heaters, South Africa
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Eskom has been racking its brains to come up with simple, economical solutions to its current crisis. One of these solutions it, believes is a national solar water heating program that will reduce peak demand on its currently strained electricity grid by 5,000 MW with a total investment of R70billion, R30bn less than a coal fired base load power station of the same size.
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