All cities in South Africa will face an electricity tariff increase of at least 16% in July if Eskom is granted a R22.8 billion adjustment for the 2013/2014 financial year, according to Leslie Rencontre, director of electricity at the City of Cape...
Zimbabwe is getting a 300 MW energy boost from Eskom, as the country suffers a power crunch amid reduced capacity caused by falling water levels at the Kariba dam. This comes as China has reportedly agreed to release US$1.2billion for the...
Failure to get the R22.8bn Eskom wants to recover in its application to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) will weaken the power utility’s balance sheet and worsen its financial ratios, Eskom finance director Anoj Singh...
EnergyNet is to host the second annual Powering Africa: Summit at the Marriott Marquis, Washington, D.C. from 27-29th January 2016. Industry leaders from the USA and Africa who have confirmed to attend include Minister Jeannot Matadi Atadi Nenga...
Government has spent R1 trillion on developing the country’s infrastructure, by the end of 2014. “The expenditure was in areas such as energy, water infrastructure, sanitation, rail, road-based public transport, and hospital revitalisation among...
By Dave Collins An increasingly questionable global energy supply combined with surging population growth, is creating a situation in which the global energy bubble is bound to burst. Scientists are already saying that we need one-and-half planet...
Energy is currently the second biggest cost factor in the recycled paper production with the highest lever for cost improvement. Energy generation from sorting and process rejects, provides a considerable substitution and saving of fossil fuel as...
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has approved a US$265 000 grant to the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) partnership for the development of the Atlas of Africa’s Energy...
Poor Eskom. For every step it takes forward – it cha-chas and sashays 10 backwards. The power utility says the right things, albeit not always at the right time, but seldom does the right things in the larger landscape of South Africa’s energy...
