Our news archive on the SOLTRAIN website covering updates on projects, training initiatives, and events from the SADC territories under the SOLTRAIN program.
SOLTRAIN’s Student Project Support Scheme supports masters or PhD theses dedicated to the topic of solar therm…
3 years ago
Monika Spörk-Dür
The SADC Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SACREEE) has a mandate to increase access to modern ener…
3 years, 1 month ago
Kuda Ndhlukula
The Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) in collaboration with the Solar Industry Association of Botswana (SIAB) host…
Ditiro Setlhaolo
A recent policy workshop in Botswana was the very first fully virtual policy dialogue hosted by SOLTRAIN throug…
Karen Gibson
Evacuated glass tubes are central to a host of solar thermal applications. Several years ago innovators began harnes…
Ivan Yaholnitsky
A report on one of SOLTRAIN's demonstration projects in the residential sector in Cape Town has been published.<…
SOLTRAIN Admin
Countries, cities, organizations and corporations around the world are, on a daily basis, making impressive co…
3 years, 3 months ago
In 2020, SOLTRAIN awarded bursaries to qualifying research students in its five partner countries. On…
Kevin N. Nwaigwe and Ditiro Setlhaolo
Four SOLTRAIN policy workshops and three housing sector information workshops were convened in the latter part of No…
Samson Mhlanga
Clean Energy Research Centre contributed to Botswana’s virtual Science, technology, engineering, and mathemati…
As I already described in SOLTRAIN Newsletter #3 in August, none of the SOLTRAIN team imagined that the technic…
Werner Weiss
Earlier in September, SOLTRAIN workshops for policymakers on solar heat were held in Botswana and Mozambique. The wo…
3 years, 5 months ago
SACREEE
The global COVID-19 pandemic has challenged SOLTRAIN to come up with new and innovative ways to deliver training ses…
Rudolf Moschik
Thermal heating and cooling includes a multitude of applications in Southern Africa such as hot water preparation in…
Solarsoft, the commercial entity of Lesotho SOLTRAIN partner, the Bethel Business and Community Development Center (…
Puleng Mosothoane