South Africa advanced its electricity infrastructure expansion programme last week with the re-opening of the 1 200 MW Grootvlei power station in Mpumalanga. Built in the 1960s, the plant was mothballed in 1990 due to excess power in the country at...
Two of South Africa’s largest lakes – Sibaya and St Lucia – are being drained by a combination of drought and the growing water demands of the timber industry and local people. This is the warning from scientists attending the recent national...
Eskom reports it is making 200 megawatts of power available to the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) on a day-ahead basis, meaning the hourly prices of the power on any day are set the previous day. Under the day-ahead system, market members, such...
The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) in the Western Cape Region is calling on residents and people engaged in assortment of activities near dams and rivers to be cautious as dams, canals and reservoirs in the province are at full capacity due to...
