Access for all: how the poor benefit from a greener grid

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Today we present the first fact sheet from the Smart Electricity Report. This fact sheet focuses on the benefits of keeping electricity affordable – especially for those who need it most. Continue reading →

Stuff, stuff and more stuff…

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Hopefully you have remembered that it is Mother’s day coming up on Sunday and plan to spend some quality time with the special women in your life. Natalie, our communications coordinator recently become a mother and discovered how much stuff you need for the new little person in your life. She shares some tips on how to keep things green at home with a baby. Continue reading →

Smart Electricity: a roadmap to a modern infrastructure for South Africa

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Project 90 launches our Smart Electricity Report today! After months of hard work, our report if finally complete. We are launching it at the Alternative Development Information Centre to civil society groups to share our research which provides a solid evidence base for how electricity planning in South Africa can be improved. Our report reveals how an innovative focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy in particular offer more elegant solutions than a dogged persistence with outdated, utility-scale electricity planning. Fast-tracking our transition to a healthy, modern, affordable electricity supply for all. Continue reading →

The Great Heater Debate

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We’re having a heater debate here at the Project 90 office, as winter slowly approaches. Our office is freezing in winter, and despite dressing warmly (hats, gloves and scarves!) we still have a need for heating. Our office has panel heaters as well as gas heaters and we have been debating which is the most carbon efficient way of heating our office. Does it make sense to use the panel heaters when it means having to leave them on overnight to keep the room warm? I remembered that Gary Fahy wrote an article comparing different types of heating, and have re-posted it here. It makes for interesting reading. Continue reading →

Ethical Investing

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I hope you enjoyed Workers’ Day yesterday. To celebrate this important day, our theme here at Project 90 for May is workers and Africa. For those of us fortunate to have a regular income, its hard to have the discipline to save money every month, but personal sustainability is just as important as sustainability for our planet. Today I look at a new green fund offered by 3 Laws Capital, based here in Cape Town. Continue reading →

Project 90 wins Africa Energy Award

Project 90 by 2030 has won the ‘Most Inventive Rural Electrification Project Award’ at the recent Africa Energy Awards for our innovative, participatory developmental initiative in the rural community of Msobomvu.
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Hope, light and a voice for the voiceless

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“Viva Project 90. Be a hope, light and a voice for the voiceless. Bloom and be a flower even in the jungle”.

These were the words of Ntando Juqu, one of our Kwa-Zulu Natal Club members after attending the Project 90- annual Clubs conference in
Ngwangwane community hall. It was the last of our three annual Project 90 Clubs Conferences, coordinated by our enthusiastic Club Coordinator Nqobile Masuku.

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