1 Canadian Dollar = 13.0914 South African Rand

1 Canadian Dollar = 870.198 South Korean Won

1 Euro = 20.1318 South African Rand

1 Euro = 1338.1808 South Korean Won

1 Mexican Peso = 0.7752 South African Rand

1 Mexican Peso = 51.5279 South Korean Won

1 Brazilian Real = 3.2013 South African Rand

1 Brazilian Real = 212.7942 South Korean Won

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 4.996 South African Rand

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 332.0855 South Korean Won

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.0984 South African Rand

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 6.5399 South Korean Won

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.143 South African Rand

1 Algerian Dinar = 9.5047 South Korean Won

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0012 South African Rand

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0818 South Korean Won

1 Lithuanian Lita = 6.2149 South African Rand

1 Lithuanian Lita = 413.1078 South Korean Won

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0471 South African Rand

1 Nigerian Naira = 3.1277 South Korean Won

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.7302 South African Rand

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 48.5346 South Korean Won

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 2.6612 South African Rand

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 176.8934 South Korean Won

1 Japanese Yen = 0.172 South African Rand

1 Japanese Yen = 11.4346 South Korean Won

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South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said her department wants to address weaknesses in the process of commissioning renewable-power projects.

A new report written by Nathaniel Bullard at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) highlights the difficulties large institutional investors would have divesting from fossil fuels. What it does not specifically discuss is that these difficulties could lead to large financial losses for investors who see the difficulty of divesting as a reason to delay.

Renewables became Germany’s most important power source for the first time this year, according to Agora Energiewende.

The Detroit Power Outage brought eight hours of hardship to Detroit on Dec. 2 — hardship that could have been averted with microgrids.

In a previous article, I had a conversation with former-CIA chief Jim Woolsey to discuss one of America’s greatest national security vulnerabilities, its power grid. The issues that Woolsey has been concerned with for over a decade has been the ease in which a terrorist group or other actor (think North Korea for example) could attack the grid and plunge the country into darkness for months, if not years. And if that seems far-fetched, just recall how a tree limb fell in Ohio in 2003 and blacked out the entire Northeast and part of Canada for several days.

Last year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed its aggressive Clean Power Plan (CPP), which calls to reduce carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030 over 2005 levels. States are required to submit reduction plans that can include increasing renewables, efficiency, and cap and trade programs by June 2016.

Researchers at Yale have unveiled a new interactive map that estimates public opinion on global warming right down to the county level.

In our second annual survey on American homeowners’ attitudes toward clean energy, one thing is resoundingly clear. In a nation divided on climate change, immigration policy, and so many other issues, Americans are overwhelmingly united in their support of renewable energy.

Australia’s largest electricity producer committed to close its coal-fired power plants within 35 years as part of an effort to cut the nation’s dependence on the fossil fuel.

Japan anticipates that by 2030 clean energy such as solar and hydro will generate slightly more of the nation’s electricity than nuclear power plants.

Every industry has its challenges and misunderstandings. Sometimes the obstacles we face in simply trying to do our jobs can be very frustrating.

Energy is Europe’s quiet crisis. While the clamour of failing economies, desperate migrants and political clashes grabs the headlines, energy policy is rarely front-page news, but it should be — the statistics are shocking.

Trillions of dollars will be invested in renewable energy over the next 25 years, driving some of the most profound changes yet in how humans get their electricity. That's according to a new forecast by Bloomberg New Energy Finance that plots out global power markets to 2040. 

German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said 13 percent of power stations burning lignite, a cheap form of coal, would be phased out by 2021 under a program to cut power industry pollution. The government abandoned talks on proposals to impose a climate-change fee that the industry said would have forced mines and plants to close, threatening jobs.

Five companies were recognized this week by the National Hydropower Association during its annual Waterpower Week in Washington conference for work in hydroelectric power that exemplifies "extraordinary recreational, historical, environmental or educational value."

Alternative energy mutual funds (MF) racked up extremely robust gains in the past year. Returns range from a low of 16 percent, to a high of 64 percent for a mutual fund that is heavy into solar investments. Exchange traded funds (ETF) also did well, but returns are much more variable. They range from a loss of 34 percent for a carbon ETF, to more than doubling of a solar ETF.

Developing countries that are interested in geothermal energy may see transformational results by approaching World Bank and other institutions, as Djibouti did. In an interview, the World Bank Djibouti geothermal project team talks about the project investment, lessons from Kenya’s experience, and preparations that are being made for the private sector to take up the next steps.

Wind and solar power producers say they're at risk of losing investment after the European Union's executive arm scrapped proposals for a mandatory target on renewable energy use in 2030.