New technologies and innovative approaches are opening doors for Africa’s off-grid and on-grid efforts to increase electricity access. This was according to principal environmental scientist at SRK Consulting, Warrick Stewart. Speaking at the...
How will disruptive socio-economic trends and breakthrough technologies impact municipal financial sustainability and how should local government adapt to accommodate these developments? Louis Fourie, Senior Business Consultant for Aurecon,...
 An estimated 600 million people in Africa live without access to electricity, the majority of which are in remote communities requiring major capital expenditure and time to get connected to the grid. The role of the private sector is more and...
The City of Johannesburg could soon have control over the operations of City Power, Joburg Water and Pikitup. This was announced by the city’s mayor Herman Mashaba on Sunday. Mashaba said it was challenging for the city to be “responsible and...
Municipalities and secondary cities cannot afford for South Africans to directly receive electricity from Eskom. This view comes from Eyal Shevel, sector head of corporate and public sector ratings at Global Credit Ratings (GCR), in light of Eskom...
Opinion piece by Bruce Raw, Energy Programme Manager at GreenCape The process of grid liberalisation is already underway in South Africa, but rather than being seen as threat, it presents opportunities for all players in the energy market,...
Dec 2, 2016
Power and Electricity World Africa continues to provide the meeting place for buyers, sellers and their partners to do the deals that drive Africa’s energy sector. This is THE place where buyers find solutions to their challenges. Let’s not forget...
South Africa’s large mining operations make South Africa one of the most power-hungry economies in the world. However this industry is being fed by a an aging and increasingly unreliable batch of coal fired power plants that struggle to...
67 000 jobs were lost in the second quarter, a decrease of 0.7% compared to March 2016. The job losses, reported by Stats SA are in the formal non-agricultural sector. Quarterly employment losses were observed in all industries except electricity...
