NOTE: This document was not written by GW Store – Full credit needs to be extended to the papers authors Chris Greacen and Megan Kerins The original published transcript can be foundRead More…
SSEG – Approved Photovoltaic (PV) Inverter List – 2024
Updated 6 Augu
Solar Production Calculator by City I finally got around to upgrading this system with more current hardware (solar PV module), I hope you make good use of it. We do quite aRead More…
Axpert and Pylon Configuration with Raspberry Pi Models of Axpert covered in this: Axpert 5kVA 48v, Axpert 5kW MKS II, Axpert Infini 5kW, Axpert Infini 5.5kW ES, Axpert Infini 10kW 3 PhaseRead More…
I have been meaning to write this for quite some time. I think many people will find it useful because there is a huge amount of misconception about what wind turbines canRead More…
We are being misled by the Minister of Energy, Eskom and the entire IPP program. Today we were informed that a 100 megawatt plant cost them 62 billion rand. Sadly, this is probablyRead More…
Solar Battery Buying Basics So, you want to buy a solar battery but have no clue where to start? Need help in working out what’s right for you? Or perhaps you haveRead More…
Correct Battery Configurations on a Renewable Energy System A human’s guide to battery configuration, set up and installation. If you are reading this, then no doubt you have scoured google seeking anRead More…
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are set to rise again in 2012, reaching a record high of 35.6 billion tonnes – according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led byRead More…
Food allergies are on the rise, affecting 15 million Americans. And according to a new study published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific journal of the American CollegeRead More…
Doha – Countries entered a second week of UN climate talks in Doha deeply divided on key issues even as fresh warnings were issued that rising greenhouse gas levels are putting ourRead More…
Doha – The fact that Arctic sea ice has melted this year to its lowest recorded level shows, along with other weather extremes, that “climate change is taking place before our eyes”,Read More…
Onekama – For more than a century, easy access to Lake Michigan has made Onekama a popular place for summer visitors and a refuge for boaters fleeing dangerous storms. Now the communityRead More…
Cape Town – The department of fisheries’ decision not to cut the West Coast rock lobster quota placed both the species and livelihoods at risk, the DA warned on Monday. Fisheries MinisterRead More…
Doha – The US defended its track record on fighting climate change on Monday at UN talks, saying it’s making “enormous” efforts to slow global warming and help the poor nations mostRead More…
Paris – Rising acidity is eating away the shells of tiny snails, known as “sea butterflies”, that live in the seas around Antarctica, leaving them vulnerable to predators and disease, scientists said.Read More…
Sydney – Australia approved an “historic” plan on Thursday to save an ailing river system vital to the nation’s food bowl by returning the equivalent of five Sydney Harbour’s worth of waterRead More…
Moscow – The Russian Arctic is losing ice cover and being inhabited by species from the south in the latest sign of climate change, according to a group of Russian scientists. TheRead More…
A new NASA study finds that global sea level, which dipped sharply in 2010-11 due to a strong La Nina event, has recovered and resumed its long-term upward climb. For most ofRead More…
Cape Town – The second Green Expo will take place in Cape Town at the Cape Town Convention Centre with 10 000 people expected to attend. People who attend the expo standRead More…
San Francisco – California sold out of the first pollution permits issued as part of a landmark offensive against greenhouse gases at an inaugural auction that regulators said went smoothly. The effortRead More…
Johannesburg – South Africa does not have a water crisis because the country still has many options, a senior official said on Tuesday. “These options must be realised as potential options,” saidRead More…
Washington – All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but it is the world’s poorest countries that will be hit hardest by food shortages, rising sea levels, cyclones andRead More…
Sydney – Australia banned super trawlers fishing in its southern waters for two years on Monday, saying there was uncertainty about the impact of such large vessels on species such as dolphinsRead More…
St Austell – The tropical tranquillity beneath the striking domes of Britain’s Eden Project, paid for with EU cash, is a sweet-scented haven from the bitter political row over the bloc’s budget.Read More…
Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources to human vision. By tuning lighting devices to work more efficiently with the human brainRead More…
Quito – The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say – and that means the rats mustRead More…
Manila – Fishing vessels registered in the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia have been filmed “laundering” illegally caught tuna, environment activist group Greenpeace International said on Thursday. Greenpeace said it recorded the transferringRead More…
Vienna – Austrian experts say melting glaciers have been the single greatest cause of rising sea level over the past century. Scientists at the respected University of Innsbruck say that between 1902Read More…
Johannesburg – Gauteng Ppremier Pomvula Mokonyane opened a school with a difference in Olievenhoutbosch, near Pretoria, on Tuesday. The Orefile Primary School is the first in the province built from alternative constructionRead More…
Johannesburg – South Africa needs an independent operator in the electricity sector, the Free Market Foundation (FMF) said on Tuesday. A single grid owner and operator, South Africa’s current model, resulted inRead More…
Cape Town – Fundisile Mketeni, deputy director general in the department of environmental affairs, told Parliament on Tuesday that 549 rhino have been poached this year. He also said 224 arrests haveRead More…
Anchorage – Around 800m below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one dayRead More…
Paris – A study in China’s northwestern Qinling Mountains, home to around 270 pandas and about a fifth of the world’s wild population, predicts a “substantial” bamboo decline this century as theRead More…
Kampala – On a continent where fears of a plunging elephant population are usually high, a sudden upsurge in elephants in Uganda is not being treated as good news. That’s because theRead More…
Oslo – Rich nations are dismaying developing countries with pledges merely to continue aid to help them combat climate change in 2013 despite past promises of a tenfold surge to $100bn aRead More…