Energy innovation: Team work is making the Cape Town dream work | Energy innovation: Team work is making the Cape Town dream work | | <img alt="" src="https://resource.capetown.gov.za/cityassets/PublishingImages/Become%20a%20green%20supplier%20Header%20Image.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | <p>The City of Cape Town's Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Councillor Beverley van Reenen, visited one of Team Cape Town’s energy pioneers Rubicon, helping to drive the vision of green economy job creation.<br></p> | <div>‘It has been an absolute pleasure to see Rubicon’s operation first hand as an ambassador for showing what can be achieved to unlock sustainable economic and job creation opportunities in the green economy. As a City, we are working hard to enable the growth of the green economy and to make sure that Cape Town becomes a more future-fit city, where sustainability and job creation go hand in hand. We are all working together for our more sustainable future and the City has added the challenge of ending load-shedding over time. This is based on looking at more affordable, cleaner resources where we are less reliant on Eskom. Progress is being made on our advanced plans to protect against the first four stages of Eskom’s load-shedding by 2026. The City already provides load-shedding protection of up to two stages where feasible, which has been a big positive already for our regional economy,’ said Councillor Van Reenen. <br></div><div><br></div><div><span><p><img src="https://resource.capetown.gov.za/cityassets/Media%20Images%202/MPwTYyGi.jpg" class="responsive" alt="" style="width:951px;" /></p></span></div><div><strong>More about Rubicon</strong></div><div>Rubicon is a vertically-integrated sustainable technology company with a footprint of 23 facilities spanning more than 30 000 sqm in size employing more than 550 people. APEX, a subsidiary of Rubicon, is a product development house that develops, designs and manufactures equipment and software services for the renewable energy industry. The team is currently developing APEX Cloud Services – to manage renewable energy equipment in the field – as well as microgrid controllers, inverters, batteries, and geyser controllers.</div><div> </div><div>https://www.rubicon.tech/</div><div>https://www.apexsolar.tech/</div><div><br></div><div><strong>End</strong><br></div><p><br></p> | 2024-05-04T22:00:00Z | GP0|#1d539e44-7c8c-4646-887d-386dc1d95d70;L0|#01d539e44-7c8c-4646-887d-386dc1d95d70|City news;GTSet|#62efe227-07aa-45e7-944c-ceebacca891d | | | | | GP0|#b195be29-9300-4dc7-ac99-92629ce847ac;L0|#0b195be29-9300-4dc7-ac99-92629ce847ac|electricity;GTSet|#2e3de6c1-9951-4747-8f53-470629a399bb;GP0|#dfdcb4f5-2ec2-4bd4-9a9f-3086ef5830a7;L0|#0dfdcb4f5-2ec2-4bd4-9a9f-3086ef5830a7|energy;GTSet|#2e3de6c1-9951-4747-8f53-470629a399bb;GP0|#58287e80-5989-49d9-ad4f-9a060f5e0934;L0|#058287e80-5989-49d9-ad4f-9a060f5e0934|solar;GTSet|#2e3de6c1-9951-4747-8f53-470629a399bb | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |