Nov 7, 2016
Penalties, reputational damage and system failure can rack up massive costs on a sub-standard power installation, warns Clive Maasch, GM at Tank Industries. There is an Afrikaans saying: ‘Goedkoop is duur koop’, which, translates to ‘buying cheap is...
Jun 20, 2016
South African businesses must have sufficient security systems in place in order to protect their staff, their assets, their products and their intellectual property. But, in a country where load shedding is not uncommon and unscheduled power outages occur frequently,...
May 17, 2016
Enermatics, a provider of smart metering technology and reseller of power to end users, has established an offering – Enermatics smart metering solutions – tailored to the requirements of the commercial market. Specifically, the company’s service...
Mar 9, 2016
Datacentrix has been helping keep the lights on (and off) – literally – at Hotel Verde, South Africa’s greenest hotel and the first hotel in Africa to offer carbon-neutral accommodation and conferencing. Hotel Verde was built to be as sustainable as...
Jan 8, 2016
Loadshedding and sourcing reliable power supply remain challenges for all businesses in South Africa. The answer is to identify specific requirements, use the right technology solutions and be ready with a well-considered business continuity strategy, says Raj Naidoo,...
Dec 15, 2015
Kroshlen Moodley, GM: public sector and utilities at SAS, writes that South Africa is a water scarce country. With average annual rainfall of 450mm – compared to a global average of 870mm – the country is ranked the 30th driest in the world. One would...
