STRIVING FOR GENDER-EQUAL LEADERSHIP IN THE RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR
August 2023. With 57% of all EIMS Africa’s employees being female, and 42% holding leadership positions, the company is helping to drive the renewable energy sector’s gender transformation agenda and support the country’s National Development Plan, which aims to reduce inequality by 2030. Working off the back of the 2022 COBENEFITS report, where it is […]
JOINING FORCES TO HELP END PERIOD POVERTY ACROSS NINE PROVINCES
Collaborative partnerships are proving to create compounded impacts for the benefit of a multitude of projects’ host communities, across provinces that comprise the country’s renewable energy map. As demonstrated repeatedly, partners working together to share expertise, resources, and responsibility for achieving common goals is far more effective than results from an agency alone. This is […]
PIONEERING BLADE PAINTING FOR AVIFAUNA MITIGATION
February 2023. EIMS Africa’s portfolio company, Umoya Energy Wind Farm, situated on the West Coast (Western Cape), has taken the lead on improving the country’s wind industry approach to conserving avifauna. Previously known as Hopefield Wind Farm, the country’s first REIPPPP project, the wind farm has successfully implemented blade painting, as a mitigation measure. Blade […]
EIMS AFRICA CONCLUDES ACQUISITION TO SUPPORT GROWTH
August 2022. EIMS Africa’s growth strategy, which anticipates a generation capacity of circa 1 500MW, exceeding 20 renewable energy Independent Power Producers by late-2022, has necessitated the acquisition of REESCO, a key step in facilitating the expansion. Already one of South Africa’s largest renewable energy platforms, comprising a portfolio of 13 utility-scale renewable energy projects […]
PROJECT CEO CAREER TRAJECTORY
May 2022. Tasneem Khan has been appointed as EIMS Africa’s new Project Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for a portfolio of six solar PV projects in South Africa. Tasneem, previously the Project Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the portfolio, has been managing these projects in a caretaking capacity for the past few months and took up […]
BUILDING TECHNICAL SKILLS FOR SA WIND POWER SECTOR
The Wind Turbine Service Training programme, an initiative of EIMS Africa’s Portfolio Company, Cookhouse Wind Farm, and Suzlon, its Operations and Maintenance Contractor, is helping to build technical skills for South Africa’s wind power sector. This skills based capacity building programme demonstrates both sector leadership as well as the value of collaboration. Furthermore, the programme […]
PIONEERING BIODIVERSITY OFFSET AGREEMENT
February 2022 EIMS Africa and their portfolio company, Umoya Energy Wind Farm, and SANParks are celebrating a pioneering Biodiversity Offset Agreement that was formalised almost a decade ago. This Public Private Partnership was the first of its kind, comprising an agreement with Umoya Energy Wind Farm and SANParks, which augments the West Coast National Park […]
WIND FARM O&M RENEGOTIATION
November 2021. The renegotiation by EIMS Africa of one of their wind farm Operation & Maintenance (“O&M”) Agreements indicates a maturing renewable energy sector. As part of the South African government’s first round (R1) of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), one of the EIMS Africa Wind Farm projects, the Cookhouse Wind […]
EIMS AFRICA ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF CCO
Cape Town, November 2021. EIMS Africa, the African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) renewable energy portfolio company, is pleased to announce that Mike Wickins has joined the Company in the role of Chief Commercial Officer. Mike has nearly 20 years’ experience in infrastructure finance across Sub-Saharan Africa, the last 10 of which have been spent exclusively […]
BOIKANYO SOLAR COMES ON LINE TO POWER UP THE NORTHERN CAPE
August 2021. Boikanyo Solar, situated in the Siyancuma Local Municipality, close to Douglas in the Northern Cape, commenced its Commercial Operations earlier this year, having reached grid code compliance on 9 April 2021. This project, which took just a year to construct, is now producing enough clean energy to power some 62 000 South African […]
DE WILDT SOLAR GROWS NORTH WEST PROVINCE’S GREEN POWER MAP
January 2021. De Wildt Solar, situated within the Madibeng Local Municipality, close to the town of Brits, in the North West Province, announced its Commercial Operations on 23 January 2021, having achieved facility completion. This 50MW PV project is the fourth utility scale plant that has come on line, in the North West, in under […]
ZEERUST SOLAR JOINS THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE’S GREEN POWER MAP
January 2021. Zeerust Solar, situated near the town of Zeerust, in the North West Province, commenced its Commercial Operations, having achieved full compliance on 1 January 2021. This 100% South African-owned PV project joins Bokamoso Solar and Waterloo Solar plants, putting the North West on the map as a player in the renewable energy sector, […]
WATERLOO SOLAR BEGINS COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS TO BOOST GREEN ENERGY SUPPLY
November 2020. Waterloo Solar, located 10kms outside of Vryburg, in the North West Province, commenced its Commercial Operations November 2020. This 100% South African-owned solar project, brings the total number of large-scale projects constructed in the North West Province to three, in just one year. Boasting 261 360 solar modules, harnessing the intense North West […]
BOKAMOSO SOLAR PLACES NORTH WEST PROVINCE ON THE GREEN POWER MAP
September 2020. Bokamoso Solar, situated near Leeudoringstad, in the North West Province, commenced its Commercial Operations, having achieved full compliance on 12 September 2020. This solar PV power plant and several others currently under construction, have put the North West on the map as a player in the renewable energy sector, to not only deliver […]
OPERATIONS UNDERWAY FOR 100% SOUTH AFRICAN OWNED MATLA A BOKONE SOLAR
March 2020. Matla A Bokone Solar, situated in the Sol Plaatje Municipality, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape, commenced its Commercial Operations earlier this year, having reached full grid code compliance on 20 February 2020. Previously known as Droogfontein Solar 2, this solar facility is 100% South African owned, a significant positioning for renewable energy […]