The South African power system is still coal-driven, says Dr Tobias Bischof-Niemz, chief engineer at the Integrated Energy Research Centre at the CSIR. With power utility Eskom struggling to keep the lights on in SA, renewable energy can provide some answers to the parastatal's woes.
So says Dr Tobias Bischof-Niemz, chief engineer at the Integrated Energy Research Centre at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), following a recent CSIR study which discovered renewable energy projects using sun and wind in SA created R800 million in net savings last year.
Bischof-Niemz says the relevant standards and norms for grid connection of embedded generators as well as metering standards need to be finalised as a matter of urgency.
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So says Dr Tobias Bischof-Niemz, chief engineer at the Integrated Energy Research Centre at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), following a recent CSIR study which discovered renewable energy projects using sun and wind in SA created R800 million in net savings last year.
Bischof-Niemz says the relevant standards and norms for grid connection of embedded generators as well as metering standards need to be finalised as a matter of urgency.
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