Who was affected worst by #COVID19? Speaking to a Global Food Security article, Sherwin Gabriel says wages declines are disproportionately larger for lower educated workers doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.… #SATIED IFPRI National Treasury SA Reserve Bank Agriculture, Plant, Soil and Forestry Sciences youtu.be/fFTKDPEx4hE]]

Schools’ annual electricity costs can be reduced by 21%-39% merely by replacing fluorescent lights with the most efficient LED lighting option available bit.ly/3chgQY6

Between 3% and 18% of the schools’ government financial allocation – meant to be a lifeline to schools – is wasted on inefficient lighting, writes Jason Avron Samuels, Leslie van Rooi, MJ (Thinus) Booysen and Sara Grobbelaar. | The Conversation Africa news24.com/news24/columni…

Here's a presentation made by Eskom Hld SOC Ltd's CEO today. South Africa needs 16,000 MW of new power generation capacity over the next 10 years. And look at the technologies that can deliver! So why is energy minister Gwede Mantashe still focusing on coal and nuclear. Let's get real

Sien uit om eendag saam Willem Pelser bietjie te praat oor skole se elektriese-energie en die besparings weens vermindering daarvan:) theconversation.com/light-in-the-d…

Baie dankie Metzi van der Merwe theconversation.com/light-in-the-d…

The guy, who edited these upcoming videos, is amazing! Slobbymc Stay tuned: bit.ly/jason316

South Africa needs more power. Obvious. So why has the next bid window of the renewable energy independent power producer programme (REIPPP) not been opened yet. The last time was in 2014!!! A 7 year hiatus. Eskom Hld SOC Ltd cannot solve this alone. We need new investment

The moment in Dumisani Hompashe ‘s online PhD defence yesterday that he heard his PhD is being awarded. Congratulations, Dumisani 🎊! You worked so very hard for this. And all during Stage 3 load shedding, nogal. Stellenbosch University RESEPgroup

Today is the first day back at school for HALF of South Africa 🤓. For the other half, it's tomorrow ☹️. For as long as we practice rotational timetables (only 50% on any one day), learning outcomes will be at most 50% of what they normally are. Ditto school feeding :(

Short-term solar power forecasting: Investigating the ability of deep learning models to capture low-level utility-scale Photovoltaic system behaviour sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I wonder what some of the effects of COVID-19 were on schools' electricity in SA :) and if the impact would be similar or inverse to the paper below. Impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on energy consumption in a Canadian house. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Effect of COVID-19 virus on reducing GHG emission and increasing energy generated by renewable energy sources sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#PlanetShapers The very first Energy Performance Certificate #EPC in SA has been awarded! The main admin building of the Stellenbosch University received accreditation last night 18 Feb - congratulations Stellenbosch University #greenbuilding #energyefficiency

Op-ed for social justice day on missing poor and how data-driven future may worsen current divides. bit.ly/missingpoor. Of course, I am not an AI ethicist, but can describe problems from my disciplinary perspective, as a development economist. Eager to hear from others!

UPDATE: Tomorrow we sign the MOUs with our scientific research partners at the CSIR 🇿🇦 and Stellenbosch University. A big step towards finding viable and sustainable alternate energy sources.

Thanks, Canva!

#ACEEU_Awards #2023Entry822

Last week I visited iKaya Primary School in Kayamandi to have a look at their fantastic new solar system and LED lighting, the product of a great partnership with Stellenbosch University to improve energy resilience in the Western Cape. Read more here: wcedonline.westerncape.gov.za/news/ikaya-pri…

Another Stellenbosch school gets PV power news24.com/news24/communi… via @news24