WindAc Africa

20/02/2024

09/02/2024

EVENT: WindAc Africa 2024! ✨

Dates: 1 - 3 October 2024
Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre

WindAc Africa serves as a dynamic platform for the research and academic community to enrich the knowledge base in the wind energy sector. 📚 Join us as leaders share, present, and discuss new research, insights, and ideas that will shape the future of wind energy in Africa.

🎙️ We anticipate cutting-edge thought leadership from pioneers in the research and academic space, promising a day of innovation and exploration. Stay tuned for updates on the dates – you won't want to miss this!

Keep updated about WindAc here: https://sawea.org.za/windac

19/10/2023

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19/10/2023

It was an honour to have representatives from the Embassy of Denmark in South Africa at WindAc Africa 2023.

It was an honour to have representatives from the Embassy of Denmark in South Africa at WindAc Africa 2023 last week.

06/10/2023

WindAc Africa 2023, a conference hosted by the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) kicked-off its sixth instalment this week.

30/09/2023

📢 WindAc 2023 Speakers 📢

As part of the "Beyond The Turbines" theme for Windaba and WindAc this year, we are honoured to have Prof Andrew Maredza present Harnessing South Africa's Wind Energy Potential Amid Energy Supply Shocks, Macroeconomic Instability and Climate Change Risks.

Prof Maredza is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Mpumalanga (UMP), South Africa, and a Research Fellow at INTI International University in Malaysia. He previously worked as an Energy Development Officer at the Ministry of Energy and Power Development in Zimbabwe. He is currently serving as Guest Editor of the African Journal of Economic and Management Studies. He reviews research manuscripts for several local and international journals, including reviews of NRF-rating applications for the National Research Foundation of South Africa since 2019.

He has presented his research at various national and international conferences and produced research publications in peer-reviewed journals, including working papers published by Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA). In his secondary role as Programme Leader at UMP, he has led the development and accreditation of postgraduate academic qualifications in economics at honours, masters, and PhD levels. He formerly served as an Associate Professor at North-West University, where he successfully supervised and co-supervised Master's and doctoral studies. He has completed electives in environmental economics and health economics at a residential joint facility for electives (JFE) in Kenya for a collaborative Master's programme offered by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe.

30/09/2023

📢 WindAc 2023 Speakers 📢

Join Dr. Bruce Young as he will be speaking at the WindAc conference on the role of wind energy in decarbonisation globally and in South Africa. Dr Bruce is an experienced chemical engineering and business development professional with a good understanding of the South African and global energy and petrochemical landscape.
Thirty years prior work experience at Sasol before joining the African Energy Leadership Centre at the Wits Business School in April 2022. Prior to Sasol, he was a chemical engineering academic at the University of the Witwatersrand for five years. During that time, he published over twenty publications in international peer-reviewed journals. While at Sasol, he participated in the commercialisation of several novel processes in the energy and chemicals area, as well as the $1.3 billion pioneering Oryx gas to-liquids plant in Qatar.
He has experience in energy and chemicals technology, corporate strategy, business development and mergers and acquisitions. He has played a significant role in the nurturing and development of several pioneering value-adding businesses for Sasol. His experience in the development and commercialisation of several major projects involving pioneering process technology has given him specific insight into the technology and business risks associated with pioneering projects in the energy and chemicals area.
His research interest is to explore the technical, economic, and business risks associated with the novel and competing pioneering technology options for the renewable energy transition with a view to understanding which technologies will prevail and which will fall by the wayside. He has a BSc, MSc, and PhD in chemical engineering, all from the University of the Witwatersrand.
To register for WindAc 2023, navigate to : https://lnkd.in/dR246yQv

27/09/2023

📢 WindAc 2023 Paper Presenters📢

Meet Nontethelelo Tshivhase as she will be sharing insights on how universities are paving the way for a greener future, driving innovation and sustainable solutions. Nontethelelo is an MBA graduate, a PhD student at Northwest University, and an employee in the Finance department at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests cover Waste Management, Renewable Energy Generation and Consumption, Water Saving Technology and Consumption, Strategic Management, Local Economic Development, Just Energy Transition Business Administration, Digital Transformation, Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability, and BRICS. In the broadest sense, her work lies at the interface between climate change and going green. Among other duties at the University of Pretoria, she tutors Economics, Financial Management and Accounting, and Business Management to honors and undergraduate students in a private capacity.

She has published articles in areas of going green at universities. She has presented at conferences on Research and Innovation Accelerating Transformations to Global Sustainability, Growth and sustainability of livelihoods in the BRICS countries: knowledge sharing in social justice, Governance and Sustainable Business Environments, and Innovative Practices. Further details are available on Google Scholar and ResearchGate (see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nontethelelo-Tshivhase ).

Register today and join the presentation: https://www.windac-africa.co.za/windac-2023-registration/

27/09/2023

We look forward to welcoming Jan-Hendrik Grobler for his presentation on the viability of open-source wind resource assessment software.

Jan-Hendrik Grobler joined the CSIR in 1991 and initially focused on internal combustion engine research. During this time, he investigated renewable energy, including dish/sterling technology, on which he received training in the USA. In 1996, he moved to the computational fluid dynamics group, where he specialised in transonic flow and store release modelling.

He joined the CSIR’s Energy Research Centre in November 2021 following collaborative research on offshore wind energy in the preceding year. He is currently part of the Energy Supply and Demand research group and contributes to the wind energy portfolio, where he focuses on wind resource assessments and energy modelling.

He holds a BSc degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pretoria, an MSc in mechanical engineering from Northwest University and a BCom degree from the University of South Africa.

To register for WindAc 2023, navigate to:https://www.windac-africa.co.za/windac-2023-registration/

27/09/2023

📢 WindAc 2023 Speakers 📢

We are honoured to introduce one of our WindAc speakers for 2023, Mr. Yang Jingbo. He is a Goldwind Africa Solution Technical Leader who graduated from USTB (University of Science and Technology Beijing) in China with a master’s degree. He has long been committed to the wind turbine industry in Africa.

Join WindAc 2023 as he will be sharing insights on offshore wind and technological developments; register today: https://lnkd.in/dR246yQv