China's Solar Geyser Market Promising

Xinhua English Newswire;  May 16, 1996 ;     185 words ......country now has 300 manufacturers of solar geysers and sold one million sq m of solar geysers last year. An expert from the ministry...the potential market for the country's solar geysers is very promising, as there are only...

Electricity/regulations/released for/comment.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  February 1, 2008 ;     241 words ......must immediately be fitted with energy-efficient bulbs. l Electric geysers in new commercial or residential buildings worth more than...2010, all commercial and residential buildings which have electric geysers must have solar water heating facilities added. l By 2010...

Green light for province's solar geysers project.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  April 21, 2008 ;     245 words ......saving, and poverty. The first 60 of 240 Eskom-accredited solar geysers had been installed in the KwaNokuthula community in Riversdale...training academy to build a pool of skills needed to install solar geysers. It was envisaged that the academy would train 250 unemployed...

Clean and green in Cosmo City.(News)

The Saturday Star (South Africa);  February 9, 2008 ;     509 words ......lights and other needs, the supplies were not enough to run electric geysers when Cosmo City was first developed. We had to purchase...much better than what we would be experiencing if we used electric geysers, said Extension 2 resident Paulo Cossa. Six people in my...

Powerful solutions.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  May 13, 2008 ;     420 words ......work with local authorities to install solar geysers in all buildings as a service provided...of the most technologically advanced solar geysers in South Africa would have a powerful...achieved through mass production of the solar geysers, standardisation and inspection. Government...

Legal obstaclesdelay passageof city's solargeyser bylaw.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  November 17, 2008 ;     206 words ......10% of all houses being fitted with solar geysers by 2010. Fewer than 2% of houses...with a fitted hot water supply, have solar geysers. Another 38 000 houses would have to install solar geysers in the next 13 months for Cape Town...

Try alternative way.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  January 24, 2008 ;     290 words ......nobody to run your power stations it is just a lot of hot air. Solar geysers are like cars - the less the expense, the worse the quality. There are new-generation solar geysers that heat the water up in three hours. China is opening a nuclear...

City to switch off your geyser.(News)

The Mercury (South Africa);  February 1, 2008 ;     606 words ......street lights must be fitted with energy-efficient bulbs. q Electric geysers in new commercial or residential buildings worth more than...2010, all commercial and residential buildings which have electric geysers must have solar water heating facilities added. q By 2010...

Ways to lighten the power load.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  February 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......over the years, says Fowler. Solar geysers currently cost between R10 000...fitted with electricity-saving solar geysers. Financial incentives are planned to encourage consumers to fit solar geysers in their homes, but as yet no...

Province to open solar heating academy.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  May 30, 2008 ;     280 words ......and solar geyser installers. She said a national rollout of solar geysers was hamstrung by a shortage of skills, and that training...installers. The department has embarked on a rollout of 1 000 solar geysers in four areas to deal with three challenges facing the Western...

Solar geysers hot ticket to energy saving.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  April 13, 2008 ;     310 words ...BYLINE: Margie Inggs Solar geysers are very basic appliances, heating water via a solar panel...because they have completed the necessary SABS compliance tests. Solar geysers are simple to install but if you choose to install one yourself...

Generator sales rise as energy scramble starts.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  April 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......director of Suntank, a Durban company which manufactures solar geysers, said Eskom would like suppliers to discount equipment to...happen, he said. Gur-Arie said the increase in demand for solar geysers was higher than Suntank's capacity to supply them, and he...

Eskom consumers switch to solar power.(News)

The Mercury (South Africa);  April 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ......looking at a lot of different solutions and have definitely identified thermal power and solar geysers, and have taken the decision to use solar geysers in some of our plants. But the closure of the contracts and logistics are still being finalised...

Solar's the way to go.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  October 11, 2007 ;     245 words ...I would like to reply to Piet Claasen ( Nuclear power , September 28), complaining about the need to replace solar geysers regularly and Anthony Keen ( Copper's best , October 9), saying that a copper/solar combination is best for water heating...

Researchers tap sun for cheap power.(Business Report Weekend)

The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  January 27, 2008 ;     358 words ......electricity crisis is forcing many South Africans to turn to the sun as an alternative source of energy, the costs of installing solar geysers are still prohibitively high. University of Johannesburg researchers, however, have come up with a cheaper and more efficient...