Mixed energy is an advisory firm that coordinates renewable energy developments through strategic alliances engaged in solar, wind, battery storage and hybrid energy projects.
Electricity and heating run the world. We need it for everything from our transport system, heating and powering our houses, building infrastructure, and all industries. As of now, we rely primarily on fossil energy sources like oil, coal and gas. We are releasing CO² from the ground that has been trapped there for millions of years. If we want to stop climate change, we need to switch to renewable and sustainable energy sources as soon as possible. Luckily many smart people are working on increasing the amount of renewable energy production while at the same time making sure our grids stay stable despite the volatile nature of renewables, to name one example.
How does our energy production and consumption affect our environment?
Today energy sources are predominantly fossil. The negative impact of fossil energy on our environment is twofold. On the one hand, the burning of fossil resources releases enormous amounts of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, CO2, into our environment. On the other hand, gaining fossil energy also releases vast amounts of greenhouse gases each year. In the long run, fossil energy is not only exploiting the soil and polluting our air, but fossil energy is also non-renewable, hence time-limited.
In the past, easy, cheap and safe access to energy was so commonplace for most in our society that we sometimes even forgot what was behind the light switch or the gasoline we put in our cars. In the beginning, there was no environmental issue arising from the emission of greenhouse gases. Due to the industrial revolution, we have transformed our societies at an unseen speed by using fossil energy to power our cars and industries. Energy consumption has been steadily increasing since then, from 12 000TWh in 1900 to 170 000 in 2019. First, it was mostly coal and oil, but we constantly looked for more efficient and recently cleaner energies. Unfortunately, those transformations weren’t priceless. As we were burning more and more fossil energies, we started releasing enormous amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. Today, 84% of the global energy consumed is still obtained from fossil fuels.
It is globally acknowledged that human’s greenhouse gas emissions are causing greenhouse effects in the atmosphere, resulting in global warming of our climate. This is caused by a lot of CO2 emissions released when burning fossil fuels. The fossils were formed millions of years ago by a slow process of organic material decomposition being kept under high pressure and temperature conditions. Therefore, they are not considered renewable because consumption surpasses its natural production by far. Speaking of which, “renewable” energies like sun, water and wind, have been used for centuries with mills, for example, but had only recently started to be used for heating and generating electricity.
Since the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, many countries have pledged to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. Energy has become one of the spearheads of this topic because not all energy sources are equal regarding their carbon emissions.
Fossil fuels emit the most CO2, but renewable energies also set free Greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, all renewable energies have far fewer carbon emissions than fossil fuels. Wind power emits the least CO2 among renewable energies, followed by hydropower, geothermal, and solar power.
Mixed Energy Solutions are invested in changing the face of renewable energy in Subsaharan Africa.
SELECTIVE ACHIEVEMENTS OF CONSORTIUM MEMBERS
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- Developed the SMART meter for Eskom
- Advisor to Eskom on IRP which preceded the REIPPP
- Advisor to JDeCo on distribution of electricity prepaid metering in conjunction with the World Bank-Middle East
- Lead advisor with Trafigura on bid for Chevron Caltex South Africa
- Advisor to Eskom Uganda Hydro project
- Advisor to ARES prism:– Project Management Tool used by Eskom
- Advisor to Kilwa Group for Energie Electrique di Congo rehabilitation project.
