South Africa has long dominated Africa’s growth charts. And I believe that South Africa has the potential to be the fastest-growing economy on the continent again. There’s one issue that we must address, and that’s the issue of electricity. Simply...
Security of energy supply must be high on the agenda for South Africa if the country wants to continue working toward its economic and social development ambitions successfully. This is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa. Speaking at the 2019...
Eskom this week announced its intentions to cut power to the Mafube Local Municipality after it failed to pay its outstanding debt. According to the utility the scheduled interruptions, which began this week, will continue until a satisfactory...
A second transformer has come online at the Sebenza Power Substation in Johannesburg. The transformer, which forms part of the City of Johannesburg’s billion rand refurbishment project, is expected to double the output of the facility and...
Eskom on Monday announced that it would be cutting electricity supply to three Free State municipalities after they failed to honour their repayment agreements. The utility said supply interruptions to the three defaulting municipalities were...
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved the first funding proposal of the African Development Bank for Zambia’s Renewable Energy Financing Framework. Under the agreement the GCF will provide a $50 million loan and a $2.5 million grant towards the...
Unit 4 at Eskom’s Medupi Power Station Project in Lephalale, Limpopo, has attained commercial operation status. In a statement release on Tuesday the power utility said the unit reached its full power on 19 June 2017 just 20 days after its...
The resilience of the power system was stress tested on Tuesday following multiple trips of units at three power stations resulting in a loss of 3 535MW, said Eskom. “No load shedding was implemented due to the increased resilience that Eskom has...
Three Free State municipalities will no longer receive electricity supply from Eskom. That is – until they initiate plans to pay back a total of R736 million in debts for power provided. The Ngwathe, Dihlabeng and Maluti-a-Phofung...
