Sustainable Electricity Generation Technologies in South Africa: Initiatives, Challenges and Policy Implications

Policy Implications for Social Impact of Emerging Technologies: Next Generation Internet Application Services in South Korea

What this study raise the most important question for the Next Generation Internet (NGI) is not how the technology for NGI application service will be changed, but how the impact of NGI application service will change our life and implicate key policy makers. To reach this research goal, this research was conducted primarily to understand and analyze the impact of Information and Communication ...

New Electricity Technologies for a Sustainable Future

There is a growing concern over continuous reliance of our economic and energy systems on conventional electricity sources and their long-term environmental, climate change, and security of supply implications. At the same time, much hope and belief is vested in the ability of future technological progress to tackles these issues. However, informed academic analysis and policy debates on the fu...

Food inflation in South Africa: some implications for economic policy.

This paper analyses the trends in food price movements in South Africa between 1980 and 2008. There are three main results emanating from the analysis in this paper. Firstly, food price movements have played a large role in generating inflationary episodes in South Africa. Secondly, while external influences do matter, South African food price movements are mainly due to domestic influences. Th...

Description of electricity generation technologies

This chapter describes the eight electricity generation technologies considered in this publication by illustrating the basic principles behind each form of electricity generation, the conventional sub-types for each technology, as well as their common application and specific technological characteristics. Lastly, it will outline certain characteristics of power plants for each technology, whi...

Middle East North Africa Sustainable Electricity Trajectories