"Our investment in the green economy initiatives such as the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Programme has boosted youth employment particularly during the construction, engineering, operation and maintenance phases," Radebe said.

Continuing this trend, Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has teamed up with technology firm SaltX to pilot a 10MWh “salt battery” at one of its facilities in Berlin. The device contains nano-coated salt crystals, which are heated using renewable electricity. The heat from the charged salt is kept in using insulation until the user chooses to release it, either as hot air or steam.

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An increasing number of cities around the world will be introducing legislation to ban or fine the most polluting vehicles, and a growing number of countries have announced commitments to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars, including China, the UK, France and India. With governments all over the world enacting legislation to push consumers towards cleaner vehicles via taxation policies and incentives, and with energy consumption set to continue declining due to energy efficiency and DER, the EV charging market is a must-win for utilities.

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The newest commissioner, Jason Shaw, who was appointed after Doug Everett resigned before the end of his term in November, said he’s keeping an open mind on solar.

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Clear Blue’s Smart Off-Grid technology manages the charging cycles, state of charge, and other aspects that are key to leveraging the performance of lithium-ion batteries.  As lithium-ion batteries will not charge at temperatures below freezing, these lights are ideal for moderate or hot climates, but not cold climates.

Everlight demonstrated street lights on the exposition and receive inquiries for its Victory series. The series are the lightest high wattage LED street lights (3kg) with more than 150lm/W of luminous efficacy. Featuring great heat dissipation effect and innovative streamline design, the easy-to-install street lights are offered with internal or external power supply unit to be chosen by customers according to their needs. In the meantime, they also adopt the world’s first smart interactive light post, wired power line transmission, wireless NB-IoT, LoRa, and Zigbee smart street light control system. Being the most excellent, energy-saving and smart LED street lights of the new generation, the smart road devices can be perfectly matched with the smart city. The landscape lamps of Everlight which featured special light source can be installed in the biological area, allowing the public to clearly see the fireflies without disturbing them.

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And Tesla’s Elon Musk is also in on the game, with his solar roofing tiles – although production and installation of these has been delayed, and questions linger over their cost and efficiency.