In the same spirit in which President Cyril Ramaphosa relayed the State of the Nation Address (SONA), the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) emphasises the need for resilience to address the challenges facing South...
Eskom has announced that the Free State town of Clarens, in the eastern part of the province, has become South Africa’s first town where residents are now equipped to manage their own electricity load through load curtailment. Eskom Free State...
Eskom has informed Rand Water of its planned maintenance to work on the transformers that supply power at the Zuikerbosch Water Treatment Plant (ZWTP). The Eight (8)-hour planned maintenance is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 21 January 2024,...
Eskom has declared the implementation of Stage 4 load-shedding from 14:00 on Monday, November 27, 2023, until 05:00 on Saturday, December 2. The decision stems from the necessity to escalate rotational power cuts in response to unexpectedly high...
A report by Reuters has revealed that the World Bank has approved $19.2 billion to assist South Africa in eliminating loadshedding. Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, the World Bank’s Director for South Africa, lauded the reforms initiated by South...
Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Minister in the Presidency for Electricity, delivered the keynote address at the second day of the 9th UNESCO Africa Engineering Week (AEW) and the 7th Africa Engineering Conference, where he called for a more Pan-African...
At this year’s AfriSam Budget Breakdown event, Dr Azar Jammine, economist at Econometrix, highlighted key trends, stating that the R903 billion in public sector infrastructure expenditure earmarked for the 2023/24 to 2025/26 financial years is...
The City of Cape Town’s drive to end load-shedding and move away from Eskom’s grid has received yet another boost, with the completion of its landfill gas wellfield and flaring system at Vissershok Landfill. During June 2022, the City of Cape...
While solar panels have a lifespan of several decades, it becomes increasingly important to consider reuse and recycling options as time passes. South Africa’s prolonged energy crisis has been described as the biggest risk to the country’s economy....
