The West African Cable System has suffered another break - at the worst possible time for South Africa, with many people now relying on home broadband connections to work.

Network providers must ensure cost is not preventing people from accessing critical information online, the World Wide Web Foundation has warned.

Moody’s cut South Africa’s credit rating below investment grade, delivering the country a full house of junk assessments as it grapples with a nationwide lockdown.

The Competition Tribunal has blocked Naspers’s plan to buy WeBuyCars. This comes after the Competition Commission moved to prevent the R1.4-billion acquisition of a 60% stake in the company.

Vodacom Group chairman, who has been on the telecommunications operator's board for the past 11 years, will step down at its AGM on 21 July.

SAPVIA held its first Networking Event for 2020 at the iLembe Chamber of Commerce, in Durban on Friday, 06th March 2020. The presentations of the day can be viewed by clicking on the links below: Introduction to Solar PV, Niveshen Govender, SAPVIA PV Waste, Patricia Schroder, Reclite Local Manufacturing and Content, Viren Gosai, ARTsolar Solar […]

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In January, pulp and biomass specialist Ence Energia y Celulosa awarded Abengoa a three-year operation and maintenance (O&M) contract for its 50 MW Termollano parabolic trough CSP plant in Puertollano, central Spain. The Termollano plant was commissioned in 2009 and Ence purchased the plant from power utility Iberdrola in late 2018 as part of a […]

Abengoa, Acciona install receiver at Chile's Cerro Dominador EPC partners Abengoa and Acciona have installed the receiver at the 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP tower project in Chile, Abengoa said in a statement March 5. Located in the Atacama Desert and due online this year, the Cerro Dominador plant is Latin America's first CSP plant […]

Channels: CSP ESCSPTags: cspsolar thermalconcentrated solar powersolar powersolar energyEvent URL: https://events.newenergyupdate.com/csp/Event Location: Madrid, SpainNumber of attendees: 300Event Organiser: Rhys WattEvent Organiser E-mail: rwatt@newenergyupdate.comPrécis: Design, Develop, Deploy + Operate Dispatchable Solar Electricity and HeatEvent Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 to Wednesday, November 18, 2020Sector: CSP Today

Earlier this month, UK-based investment fund Cubico Sustainable Investments acquired the 50 MW Arenales Solar Plant in Seville, southern Spain, from the PanEuropean Infrastructure Fund. Online since 2013, the Arenales plant consists of parabolic trough technology and seven hours of molten salt thermal energy storage (TES). The acquisition expanded Cubico's Spanish CSP portfolio to 150 […]

Modular CSP developer 247Solar to install advanced Chinese heliostats CSP developer 247Solar has signed a deal with China's CASEN for the supply of heliostats and control systems at its first demonstration high-temperature Brayton cycle CSP plant module in Morocco, the companies said in a joint statement February 20. 247Solar is currently building its first fully-operational […]