Tag Archives: solar
Solar Science has merged with Yes Solar – we’re moving!
We’ve merged with a very exciting nationwide solar company called Yes Solar! Check out the press release below, and then get on over to www.yessolar.co.za to check out our new home… Yes Solar is proud to announce that it has … Continue reading
Eskom want to be solar giants, or do they?
Eskom released a press statement on Monday (see news story here) saying that they want to be solar giants. Among other things, they talk about a 100MW wind plant to be completed by 2012 and a 100MW solar thermal facility … Continue reading
Obama to put solar panels on the White House
Jimmy Carter put them on in the late 1970′s, but someone later took them off again. Now, under pressure from the environmental lobby groups in his country, Barack Obama is having solar panels installed on the roof of the white … Continue reading
What to look out for when installing Solar Water Heating
I’ve put together a list of things to look out for when purchasing a solar water heating system. Here they are: Certification – what kind of certification does the system have? First prize is SABS Mark Approval. This is a … Continue reading
So do solar geysers actually save you any money?
A potential client today said that her husband had been dissuaded from going solar by two electrical engineers who told him that he wouldn’t save any money. Once I’d recovered from the shock, I realised that I actually had to … Continue reading
Coal vs Renewables in South Africa
I haven’t posted much on this blog post recently, my excuse being that Solar Science has been busy with a lot of installations – August was a good month for us! So today I’m going to try to catch up … Continue reading
Solar Science are at Constantia Village today
Yip, we’re doing another promotion today at Constantia Village Mall. You can find us outside the main entrance (near the Vida). We’ve got our table, our miniature evacuated tube system, as well as a full size collector and geyser on … Continue reading
India develops a $35 solar laptop
India has created a prototype for a $35 touch-screen laptop that it hopes to make available to thousands of students. India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says the computing device will have web browsing and video-conferencing capabilities. The iPad-like … Continue reading
SA Energy Minister on our energy future
Speaking at the first ever ‘Clean Energy Ministerial’ in Washington this week, SA Minister of Energy Dipuo Peters announced that South Africa would in August release a comprehensive wind atlas, as well as a geological carbon dioxide storage atlas. The … Continue reading
Zille unveils four-year plan for green Cape
The provincial government plans to have 15 percent of all electricity used in the Western Cape generated from renewable energy sources – like wind, wave and solar – by 2014. It also aims to reduce electricity use in selected schools … Continue reading
