Technology
Heading for more blackouts?
While SA faces a power crisis, energy efficiency is becoming easier to sell. IT vendors are taking advantage of this and one is even using the Central Energy Fund itself as a guinea pig.
01 September 2006
Peak electricity demand has outpaced SA`s economic growth, having risen by 13.8 percent from 2001 to the present 34 807MW in 2006.
This has been compounded by under-investment in power infrastructure by the state-owned monopoly supplier.
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