council for scientific and industrial research (csir)

  1. Jan

    Mantashe's claim that Eskom's EAF can magically improve is misleading the public

    Energy minister's load-shedding lie Energy expert Chris Yelland said claims that there can be a sudden improvement in Eskom’s energy availability factor to stop load-shedding is misleading the public. Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe told eNCA South Africa’s energy crisis...
    • Jan
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    • chris yelland council for scientific and industrial research (csir) eskom gwede mantashe intellidex monique le roux peter attard montalto risk mitigation ipp procurement (rmippp)
    • Replies: 85
    • Forum: Eskom and Electricity: Load Shedding
  3. Jan

    Eskom's grid needs a major upgrade before more wind power will do any good

    Big problem with Eskom's grid — South Africa faces 10 more years of power cuts Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) senior energy researcher Monique le Roux says that, given available data, another decade of load-shedding is a possible scenario for South Africa. “It’s a very...
    • Jan
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    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) eskom intellidex load-shedding monique le roux peter attard montalto
    • Replies: 107
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  4. Jan

    South Africa's worst power cuts ever in 2022 - and there are still 170 days to go

    2022 is already South Africa's worst year for load-shedding — with 170 more days to go Data from the popular load-shedding app EskomSePush (ESP) shows that 2022 will either become the worst year of load-shedding within the next few days or already has, depending on how you measure it. ESP...
    • Jan
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    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) eskom eskomsepush herman maritz jarrad wright load-shedding
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  5. Jan

    Eskom hopes to suspend load-shedding in 10 days

    Expect at least 10 more days of load-shedding Eskom says it will take at least another ten days to recover its power generating capacity sufficiently to suspend rotational power cuts. During an update on the state of its system's performance on Monday morning, the utility's CEO André de Ruyter...
  6. Jan

    Akademia launches computer science degree

    Computer science degree now available from private Afrikaans university Private Afrikaans university Akademia has announced it will start offering a full-time three-year computer science degree at its Centurion campus from 2023. The university, developed by the Solidarity Movement, announced...
    • Jan
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    • akademia corné de ridder council for scientific and industrial research (csir) hannes rautenbach marthinus visser solidarity
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  7. Jan

    CSIR paints bleak picture with Eskom breakdown data

    Eskom's breakdown crisis in two charts A Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) analysis paints a bleak picture of Eskom power plants' reliability and the potential impact on load-shedding. CSIR researchers Warrick Pierce and Bianca Ferreira showed how power plant breakdowns and...
    • Jan
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    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) eskom
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  8. Jan

    CSIR releases Eskom load-shedding stats for 2021

    Eskom's load-shedding disaster — From bad to worse 2021 was South Africa's worst year of load-shedding by far — with the rotational power cuts being implemented around 13% of the time. That was revealed in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's (CSIR) annual statistics on power...
  9. Jan

    Load-shedding under De Ruyter vs other Eskom CEOs - 2007 to 2021

    Load-shedding from 2007 to 2021 — De Ruyter vs other Eskom CEOs South Africa has endured more load-shedding under current Eskom CEO André De Ruyter than all his predecessors combined. This is based on data from the Council for Scientific Research (CSIR), which has tracked the amount of...
    • Jan
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    • andré de ruyter council for scientific and industrial research (csir) eskom load-shedding
    • Replies: 81
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  10. Jan

    Green hydrogen could help save South Africa from carbon penalties

    Green hydrogen could be South Africa's energy saviour South Africa’s ailing economy could get a new lease on life if it creates the policy and investment framework to build the infrastructure for large scale production of green hydrogen, a fuel seen as crucial in driving the world’s energy...
  11. Jan

    EskomSePush's load-shedding data for 2021

    Load-shedding in 2021 — according to EskomSePush South Africa's most popular load-shedding app, EskomSePush (ESP), has built up a large cache of information about the country's loathed rotational power cuts during 2021. ESP co-founder Herman Maritz recently announced he would be working on the...
    • Jan
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    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) eskom eskomsepush herman maritz jarrad wright
    • Replies: 46
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  12. Jan

    CSIR updated load-shedding data for 2021 released

    2021 load-shedding shocker New data released by Jarrad Wright, principal engineer at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), shows that 2021 is the worst year ever for load-shedding in South Africa. And the year is not over yet. Wright’s data, gathered from the Eskom data...
    • Jan
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    • andré de ruyter council for scientific and industrial research (csir) eskom jarrad wright load-shedding sikonathi mantshantsha
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Eskom and Electricity: Load Shedding
  13. Jan

    Worrying trend in unplanned outages at Eskom - CSIR

    Bad news about load-shedding in South Africa South Africa experienced 650 hours of load-shedding during the first half of 2021, and Eskom’s data shows a worrying increase in unplanned outages. This is according to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which has released a...
  14. Kevin Lancaster

    SA's supercomputer champions - how they did it

    How SA’s supercomputer champs won The South African team in the International Student Cluster challenge recently won the competition for the second time in a row — here’s how they did it
    • Kevin Lancaster
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    • centre for high performance computing (chpc) council for scientific and industrial research (csir) david macleod dell ellen nxala eugene de beste hardus bodenstein headline international supercomputing conference (isc) kevin beyers nelson mandela metropolitan university (nmmu) nicole thomas north-west university (nwu) pieter malan saeed natha stellenbosch university (sun) texas advanced computing centre (tacc) university of fort hare (ufh) university of the western cape (uwc) warren jacobus
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  15. jes

    Holy petaFLOPS! SA wins supercomputing crown again

    Holy petaFLOPS! South Africa wins supercomputing crown again For the second year in a row, Team South Africa has won the International student supercomputing championships in Leipzig
    • jes
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    • centre for high performance computing (chpc) council for scientific and industrial research (csir) dell ellen nxala eugene de beste hardus bodenstein headline kevin beyers nelson mandela metropolitan university (nmmu) nicole thomas north-west university (nwu) pieter malan saeed natha stellenbosch university (sun) texas advanced computing centre (tacc) university of fort hare (ufh) university of the western cape (uwc) warren jacobus
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  16. jes

    New video channels for South African mobile streaming app Tuluntulu

    New video channels for South African mobile streaming app Tuluntulu Tuluntulu has launched 10 video channels on its mobile video streaming platform
    • jes
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    • adaptive real-time internet streaming technology (artist) council for scientific and industrial research (csir) east coast access headline keith ferguson pierre van der hoven tuluntulu university of cape town
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. jes

    Random Hacks of Kindness - Pretoria and Johannesburg details

    Random Hacks of Kindness - Pretoria and Johannesburg details Two Random Hacks of Kindness events will be happening in Gauteng towards the end of November 2013
    • jes
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    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) house4hack jcse mlab quicknews random hacks of kindness (rhok) schalk heunis thoughtworks university of south africa (unisa)
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  18. QuintonB

    The DoC's radio frequency plans in SA

    Spectrum sharing, revocation for SA? Assigning spectrum earmarked for Long Term Evolution and 4G networks, and enabling spectrum sharing are immediate priorities of the DoC
    • QuintonB
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    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) department of communications (doc) headline independent communications authority of south africa (icasa)
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  19. jes

    Broadband in SA: 5Mbps, 100Mbps, and 1Gbps targets

    Broadband for SA discussed: 5Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps targets The Department of Communications has tabled a draft national broadband policy at a workshop in Pretoria, with targets up for discussion
    • jes
    • Thread
    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) department of communications headline yunus carrim
    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  20. jes

    2Mbps wirelss broadband for R20-R50 per month: Microsoft

    2Mbps wirelss broadband for R20-R50 per month: Microsoft Microsoft has officially launched its R20-R50 per month wireless broadband pilot project in Limpopo
    • jes
    • Thread
    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) headline microsoft multisource tv white spaces (tvws) university of limpopo
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  21. jes

    R20/month uncapped wireless broadband

    R20/month uncapped wireless broadband Microsoft has revealed more details around its plans to launch a TV white spaces trial in Limpopo
    • jes
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    • council for scientific and industrial research (csir) google headline meraka institute microsoft tenet tv white spaces (tvws) wireless access providers' association (wapa)
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
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