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SA's first-of-a-kind online tool for municipalities to respond to climate change to be unveiled

Media advisory As temperatures continue to rise and climate conditions generally become drier, necessary measures have to be taken to mitigate the risks and impacts of climate change across South African municipalities. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will unveil a novel...
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Development of a power system operator model for short-term variable renewable energy forecasting

South Africa exhibits one of the most carbon-intensive electricity supply systems in the world and is currently in a transition towards one which is less carbon-intensive. During the last several years South Africa has developed 3.8 GW of combined wind power, solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentra...

CSIR’s rental pool programme enables productive science and innovation environment in South Africa

Since its inception, the Rental Pool Programme has been supporting laser-based research at South African universities through the Rental Pool Fund, which has been supporting laser-based research programmes in the National System of Innovation (NSI) for 18 years. “The Rental Pool Programme encoura...