{"id":788817,"date":"2024-08-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=788817"},"modified":"2024-08-30T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T06:14:09","slug":"business-talk-enertrag-south-africas-mercia-grimbeek-on-the-biggest-opportunities-in-the-renewable-energy-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/788817\/business-talk-enertrag-south-africas-mercia-grimbeek-on-the-biggest-opportunities-in-the-renewable-energy-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 ENERTRAG South Africa\u2019s Mercia Grimbeek on the biggest opportunities in the renewable energy sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, ENERTRAG South Africa\u2019s Director of Project Development Mercia Grimbeek discusses the work the organisation is doing in the country\u2019s renewable energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grimbeek is a thought leader in the renewable energy space and has extensive leadership experience, thanks to her previous role on the leadership team of a multi-national company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She actively participates in the betterment of South Africa\u2019s energy landscape and has served as a board member and chairperson of the South African Wind Energy Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grimbeek has also worked on a wide range of renewable projects and has consulted with multiple IPPs on socio-economic and economic development projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her work, she was recognised as an Africa Energy Elite for 2022 in the Leadership Category, as well the AEE Energy Professional of the Year for 2022. In 2023, &nbsp;Grimbeek was recognised as AEE Sub-Saharan Energy Engineer, thanks to her contribution to South Africa\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grimbeek\u2019s qualifications include a BCom, Certification in Compliance Management and Values-Based Leadership, and an Executive Development Programme certification from Stellenbosch Business School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Grimbeek discusses the work ENERTRAG South Africa does in the country\u2019s renewable energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She talks about the exciting opportunities the organisation has identified in Mpumalanga, before revealing the biggest challenges ENERTRAG South Africa faces in the local renewable energy space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grimbeek then explains how ENERTRAG South Africa has leveraged partnerships to work through these challenges and succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grimbeek concludes the interview by discussing the opportunities she for renewable energy sector to unlock shared value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full Business Talk interview with Mercia Grimbeek below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mS2jvAmw9gg?si=L68OvbfVj6Hi3Gjh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENERTRAG South Africa\u2019s Mercia Grimbeek reveals the opportunities she sees in the renewable energy sector which will unlock shared value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":788818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788835,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788817\/revisions\/788835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}