The effects of digitalisation are different worldwide, and Africa is no exception. German multinational Siemens senior VP for Digital Industries in Southern and Eastern Africa Ralf Leinen says... 

Sometime back, in 1994, when the new government had taken over, there was a great deal of backslapping and self-congratulation by new Parliamentarians and officials and settling in and stuff.... 

An update on the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme – fourth window. 

A range of modular components designed to meet the needs of industry 4.0 have been recently announced. The industry modules aim to allow for flexible and productive manufacturing that also... 

Three prominent topics arose during a webinar hosted by consultancy Deloitte on April 29 around how emerging markets are responding to Covid-19 during the pandemic, as well as planning for the... 

Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has applied to the Finnish nuclear regulator for permission to load fuel into the reactor of the project. 

The Perdekraal East Wind Farm installed its final wind turbine, two weeks ahead of schedule, on March 24. 

All work has been stopped on Kusile units 4, 5 and 6. 

Eskom did not shift its April 9 deadline for returning Medupi Unit 3 to service, despite work restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Siemens commits R500 000.00 to the Solidarity Response Fund to aid in the fight against coronavirus in South Africa Siemens Plays a part in helping to ‘flatten the curve’ of Coronavirus 

When people talk about Energy “Management” often what they are only referring to is Energy Monitoring, which means gathering energy power data (i.e. kW, kWh, Power Factor), visualizing this data,... 

In industries, e.g. the pharmaceutical industry, or the food industry, there are various regulations regarding the traceability and documentation of production data. These include, among others,... 

Kangnas Wind Farm has completed the installation of all the wind turbines. 

Eskom has yet to agree on a supply contract for the bulk of coal needed for the Kusile power station. 

Commercial operation of the power plant is scheduled for November 2020. 

EDF Renewables and ESB plan to build a wind farm in Fife. 

Dominion Energy plans on building the biggest offshore wind project in the US to date. 

The turbine components have been successfully transported to the wind farms. 

French train maker Alstom has confirmed it is in talks to acquire the rail business of embattled Canadian train and plane maker Bombardier, in a fresh attempt to bulk up against Chinese... 

A solution for intelligent weighing automation that measures 20 mm in width by 65 mm in height, is said to be one of the smallest weighing electronics units available. The device’s 1 000 Hz... 

Siemens president and CEO Joe Kaeser said during a press conference this month that the company might not have decided to get involved in the Carmichael coal project, had it been aware of anticoal... 

Larry Fink said last month he would thrust climate change concerns to the center of BlackRock’s investment strategy. That didn’t stop activists from storming its Paris office on Monday. Protesters... 

The president and CEO of German multinational conglomerate Siemens, Joe Kaeser, has told a press conference in Munich that the company might have taken the decision not to get involved in the... 

Subsequent to the successful installation of an automated control solution at a confectionary manufacturer, in KwaZulu-Natal, engineering solutions provider Hybrid Automation has seen an uptick in... 

Electric mobility through electric vehicles (EVs) in Rwanda can help the country in its efforts to go green, says Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) CEO Thomas Schäfer.  This comes after Volkswagen... 

Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH plans to build a proton exchange membrane electro­lysis plant, in Salzgitter. 

Siemens and Ghana reached a preliminary agreement to upgrade the nation’s electricity grid using €250-million of financing from Germany. Siemens and Ghana Grid Co will also use the funding to... 

The Indian conglomerate coming under increasing pressure over its controversial coal mine in Australia said it won’t let protests dissuade it from completing the project. The group, controlled by... 

There is a lot of gloom and doom about in this country. In the professional community of which I am a part (that is, architects, builders, engineers, developers, and so on) I ask: "How's business?"... 

Technology and engineering multinational Siemens and renewable energy developer juwi have entered into a strategic technology partnership to focus on supplying microgrids to the mining industry.... 

Technology and engineering multinational Siemens and renewable energy developer juwi have entered into a strategic technology partnership to focus on supplying microgrids to the mining industry.... 

A new slipring motor designed and engineered for applications mainly in the cement and mining industries, has been launched. The motor has a power range up to 4.5 MW and can be used in a range of... 

In April 2019 Siemens signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Investment Commission of Ethiopia, to address the country’s energy and infrastructure sector challenges, to assist the... 

It’s the most nettlesome problem in the quest to ditch fossil fuels: how can you get thousand-degree heat used in factory furnaces without pumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the... 

Germany-headquartered multinational Siemens foresees countries in the Middle East increasing renewables’ share of their hydrocarbons-heavy energy mix by five percentage points in the coming decade.... 

How much will it cost to save the planet? An estimate from Morgan Stanley says it will take $50-trillion to stop global warming by 2050, with renewables requiring an investment of $14-trillion to... 

The project entails the construction of a large-scale combined solar and wind farm to produce low-cost renewable hydrogen or green hydrogen. 

In my last column, I wrote that State-owned electricity utility Eskom has been most comprehensively messed up. A combination of black economic empowerment, government incompetence, employee... 

Hydrocarbon fuels are essential for our daily existence. However, extracting usable fuels from crude oil is a complex process in which hydrogen plays a cardinal role, as the correct levels of... 

Volkswagen has launched a pilot project, in partnership with Siemens, to test the feasibility of electric mobility in Africa. The pilot project, which will form part of the German car maker’s... 

When Mining Weekly called at the Council for Scientific Research (CSIR) workshops nearly 40 years ago, white-coated technologists were enthusiastically talking about nuclear fusion as being the... 

A leading wind turbine original equipment manufacturer (OEM) believes that the local content in South African wind farms could rise to as high as 65% in the short term should the country...