Customer demand for energy savers on the rise
South Africans are generally - and genuinely - interested in saving electricity. This is the view of Alexander Haw, group sustainability manager of Massmart. Massmart is one of the more than 100 businesses that have pledged their support for the 49M campaign, thus...
Maximising data resources to protect water resources
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 assume that we...
Using shade to produce solar energy
GeoSolar, part of the GeoGroup, recently personified "out-of-the-box" thinking, when it turned an original invention for shade into a source of solar power. For more than 100 years, the chief purpose of carports has been to shield vehicles from the harsh sun. Today,...
CareerJunction tops online ‘career’ searches
Google Trends for the past year (October 2014 to October 2015) reveals that the term "Career Junction" outperformed any other search term under the topic "career". "What this means is that we have a strong brand awareness in our employment market. With the growing...
Ericsson, E.On, ABB work on smart energy
Ericsson, E.On and ABB have signed a cooperation agreement in Sweden to develop innovative products and services to deliver smart energy solutions for a number of industries, to help businesses reduce energy and operation costs and improve consumers' comfort and...
Huawei enhances energy efficiency
Huawei, together with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity of Ethiopia, hosted the Ethiopia Day and Huawei Electric Power Summit 2015 themed "Better Connected Smart Grid, Greater Energy Efficiency" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As one of the key events at the...
‘Energy management should be first priority for business’
Businesses in Africa, particularly small-to-medium sized organisations, continue to grapple with the challenge of acquiring reliable power supply while simultaneously having to comply with environmental regulation. Energy management strategies have become a must say...
Protect equipment from damaging transient voltage
Given the on-going power challenges in the South African market, the majority of enterprises are now fully on board with the requirement for backup power solutions such as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), writes Marco Da Silva, MD: Power Solutions at The Jasco...
Smart and simple presents new paradigm shift for utilities
The utilities sector is in the grips of a shifting reality, writes Pedro Guerreiro, head of sales: energy and natural resources at SAP Africa. The energy business model is under immense pressure: as Gartner reflected recently, energy is moving from a century-old model...
Smart grids – unlocking the power of green
South Africa remains heavily reliant on traditional sources of power generation - with green energy sources contributing just a fraction of the country's total power output, writes Martin Vergunst, business solutions executive at T-Systems South Africa. However, with...
Energy efficiency wins for hospitality industry
In the hospitality industry where room occupancy rates directly correlate with profitability, it's hard to put a cap on energy use - the guest's comfort is of prime concern. However, as tourism in South Africa flags, there is mounting pressure on this sector to...
Is your UPS talking to you?
As computer technology has become more advanced, it has also become more sensitive to fluctuations in the voltage and supply of electricity, writes Marco Da Silva, MD of Power Solutions at The Jasco Group . Ongoing power issues continue to be a major cause of computer...