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Thank you, gas, for my cup of tea 3
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New report highlights evolving role of hydropower 5 Katia dos Santos
Key issues on the agenda at Africa Energy Indaba 2023 6 Cell: 076 410 6909
Commercial and industrial rooftop PV demand increases 7 Email: katias@nowmedia.co.za
The passing of a beloved industry legend 8
Mark Yelland
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Beating the odds in difficult manufacturing project 9 Email: marky@nowmedia.co.za
Energy storage systems now available to hire 9
To accelerate the energy transition 10 COORDINATION
Babcock and B&W collaborate to deliver smarter power solutions 11 Charmaine Manicom
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Knowledge overcomes load shedding in South Africa 12 DESIGNER
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Budget Speech: Response to solar panel tax rebate 14
Kusile power station’s environmental exemption: Is it worth it? 15
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Rooftop PV system developments 17 32 Fricker Rd, Illovo, Johannesburg
The rise of the small, portable, outage-defeating power pack 23
Commissioning a PV system for best performance 25 PUBLISHER
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Modelling reveals that gas could play an
important role in maintaining a reliable
supply under numerous “real world”
events which already pose challenges to
an electricity system, and will continue to
pose these challenges for the foreseeable
future - see page 3
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