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SA is gearing up to produce batteries for electric vehicles - Engineering News

Eskom's proposed rate of return to come under scrutiny during NERSA's January hearings - Engineering News

Clean energy could be third-largest industrial sector by 2020 - report - Engineering News. This article informs us: "The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) this week released a report predicting that by 2020 the clean energy technology industry would be worth €1,6-trillion a year - ranking behind automobiles and electronics as the third-largest industrial sector." and quotes WWF's Donald Pols saying “Forgoing these opportunities for the sake of propping up an aging, polluting fossil fuel sector for as long as its lobbying power remains significant is acting for vested interests not the national interest,”. Also see this Engineering News article: Renewable Energy could be an engine of growth for Africa.

Soros Proposes $100bn fund to unlock climate talks - Engineering News

Focused use of ICT could eliminate 5,8bn t of emissions by 2020 - Engineering News - This article tells how: "Information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology research and analysis company, International Data Corporation (IDC) on Thursday released a report on the role information communication technologies (ICTs) could play to eliminate almost 5,8-billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2020."