Author:Amigun, B; Kaggwa, M; Musango, J; Mutanga, Shingirirai S; Simelane, T; Stafford, William HLDate:Dec 2011This chapter presents a critical appraisal of Africa's modern energy technologies for renewable energy. It highlights issues of scale and location-specific attributes. A critical review of different renewable energies is presented, the state ...Read more
Author:Thambiran, Tirusha; Padayachi, Yerdashin RDate:Oct 2017Energy changes, shifting to renewable, could lessen the environmental health problems associated with burning of fossil fuels and biomass fuels. Climate change is likely to have impacts on renewable energy production and distribution in ...Read more
Author:Jonker Klunne, WDate:Oct 2012Hydropower is currently the most common source of renewable energy, accounting for more than 3,400 terawatts, or about 16 percent of global electricity production, in 2010. As hydropower uses a fuel—water from the hydrologic cycle—that is not ...Read more
Author:Mkhwebane, Sesie E; Semelane, Maphumzane SDate:Oct 2020The incorporation of renewable energy into the South African resource plan energy mix has brought opportunities in the development of new energy technologies in the country. This is evident through the adoption of renewable energy in the ...Read more
Author:Szewczuk, SDate:Mar 2014Based on the policy and regulatory documents that various South Africa Government Departments have put in place to support a renewable energy industry a model has been developed that relates the different stakeholders with their respective ...Read more
Author:Eze, CN; Obodo, RM; Kebede, Mesfin A; Ezema, FIDate:Nov 2021Alkaline earth stannates are rare earth compounds with evidence of their attractive physical properties. Commonly, these rare earth complex oxide nanomaterials could be fabricated via conventional solid-state reactions such as coprecipitation, ...Read more