Cape Town
South Africa: Harvesting the Sun with Western Cape’s Housing Project
Submitted by Baerbel Epp on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 14:00.
Thermosiphon systems on the roofs of social housing blocks in South Africa: Almost all of the 210 flats that are part of the newly built housing project in Steenberg, a suburb of Cape Town, have been equipped with a solar water heater of local system supplier Hotmix (Pty) Ltd.
Photo: Bruce Sutherland / City of Cape Town
Cape Town: Draft of Solar Water Heating Bye-law
Submitted by Baerbel Epp on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 21:53.
Currently, solar water heating systems have hardly penetrated in Cape Town, South Africa. Only 2 % of city’s 906,000 households use solar energy. The planned bye-law should boost the market to 76,000 newly installed system in the next two years, but has been delayed due to continuous legal obstacles. Photo: Sustainable Energy Africa
