Call to address the climate change reality in SA
This year’s World Engineering Day (4 March) was a powerful reminder of the critical role engineers play in driving progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By Karen King, director of climate resilience at Royal HaskoningDHV The theme, "Unleashing the...
Private sector seen as key to enabling grid capacity
South Africa’s lack of sufficient reserve capacity to back up unforeseen outages has led to rolling black outs across the country, leaving many with up to eight hours of no power. As foreign ministers gathered in at the Group of 20 meeting, President Ramaphosa...
Powering sustainable mining operations in Africa
Africa’s mining sector is at a crossroads and, as the industry grapples with mounting pressure to drive operational efficiency within the boundaries of sustainability, natural gas is emerging as a compelling solution, writes Johan Helberg, head of sales: Africa at...
Vertiv supports AI, high-density computing with global liquid cooling portfolio
Vertiv has announced the launch of Vertiv Liquid Cooling Services, providing customers with the tools to enhance system availability, improve efficiency, and navigate the evolving challenges of advanced liquid cooling systems with confidence. The offering is now...
AI energy score measures AI model efficiency
Salesforce, in collaboration with Hugging Face, Cohere, and Carnegie Mellon University, has announced the release of the AI Energy Score, a benchmarking tool that lets AI developers and users evaluate, identify, and compare the energy consumption of AI models....
Energy storage key for aligning mines’ goals
During the 1990s and early 2000s South African mines bought electricity from Eskom at regulated tariffs which were globally competitive. By Jonathan Skeen, MD: commercial at SOLA Eskom prioritised the mines as their most important customers, and faced few hurdles...
Private sector can slow climate change with smart solar
As global leaders met in Davos for the 2025 World Economic Forum, the United Nations marked its first International Day of Clean Energy on 26 January. While South Africa has experienced less loadshedding over the last year, the country’s coal-based energy mix is...
How to deliver effective net zero, Just Energy Transition strategies in mines
As the global emphasis on sustainability intensifies, the mining sector is at a crossroads. Major operators must tackle the dual challenge of working towards net zero emissions while advancing a Just Energy Transition, writes Johan Helberg, head of sales at Aggreko,...
Transforming e-waste into sustainable tech solutions
In today's world, electronic devices are essential, improving our lives and connecting us like never before. By Doug Woolley, GM and vice-president of Dell Technologies South Africa While this digital evolution has brought about incredible advancements and...
Mediclinic aims for carbon neutrality, invests in renewables
A vision of being carbon neutral by 2030 is an ambitious one. Especially with an organisation that has a large national footprint, unique local challenges and a reliance mainly on a coal generated power supply challenged by loadshedding. In 2021, with ten short years...
Data centre cooling in 2025
The data centre cooling value chain is long, complicated and chaotic, consisting of multiple stakeholders, writes Yulin Wang, senior technology analyst at IDTechEx. Data centre cooling happens on multiple levels including chip and server level, as well as the rack and...
Vertiv acquires centrifugal chiller technology
Vertiv’s Chinese subsidiary has acquired certain assets and technologies of BiXin Energy Technology (Suzhou), a manufacturer of chillers, heat pumps, heat-recovery solutions and air-handling units. Focused on expanding the Vertiv chiller family, the acquisition...