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Energy independence and security: A reality check
In his role as Executive Director of the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions, Branko Terzic is responsible for defining and guiding the center’s strategic platforms and key activities in the energy marketplace. Branko’s focus is on leveraging both intellectual capital and service innovation to solve energy industry issues.
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Addressing Africa’s Infrastructure Challenges
One of sub-Saharan Africa’s top developmental challenges continues to be the shortage of physical infrastructure. Greater economic activity, enhanced efficiency and increased competitiveness are hampered by inadequate transport, communication, water and power infrastructure.
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South African Residential and Commercial Gas
Although gas has been globally accepted as an important source of energy, its usage for this purpose in the South African economy is still small compared to other mid-income countries. Until now, the use of gas in South Africa has been largely limited to applications in the industrial market.
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A look at 10 of the emerging issues in the power and utilities sector
Although gas has been globally accepted as an important source of energy, its usage for this purpose in the South African economy is still small compared to other mid-income countries. Until now, the use of gas in South Africa has been largely limited to applications in the industrial market.
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Every company is an energy company
United Parcel Service (UPS) is a package delivery and logistics company, not an energy company. And yet ...UPS has committed to improving the miles per gallon (MPG) performance of its entire U.S. package delivery fleet (some 60,000 vehicles) by 20 percent between 2000 and 2020.
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Water tight 2012
Water is our most precious resource. Its availability transcends political borders. While the challenge of increased competition for water is global, the issues must be solved on a local level by governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and domestic consumers all working together.
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Supply Chain Reaction
South Africa has recently faced a reality of power supply struggling to meet rising demand driven by strong economic growth, a low cost of electricity, rapid industrialisation and a mass electrification programme without any significant increase in generation capacity. As a result the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2010 has been designed to guide the country’s energy mix and planning for the next 20 years.
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Our Template for Renewable Energy Sector
The current global economical situation is one the defi nitive boosting for renewable energy companies that have to be converting in the major competitor of traditional energy companies (petrol, gas…). This fact added to a current climate change global has arosen all Governments efforts in promove all these new energy types (solar, wind farms...)
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What happens if nothing happens?
Judging solely by the outcomes of the last two years of negotiations, the world is facing long odds for a breakthrough agreement on global climate policy from the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa.
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