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...
There is a glimmer of hope that more than 1-thousand 8-hundred jobs could be saved at Exxaro Coal’s Arnot power station. Eskom will soon be announcing the appointment of at least two companies that will be supplying coal to the power station....
Eskom has reached an agreement with three Mpumalanga municipalities who had defaulted on their payments to the utility. In a statement, the utility said over the past few weeks it had been engaging with the municipalities. “We are pleased to report...
Eskom will step up its maintenance plans in preparation for the higher demand in winter, it said on Thursday. “As part of our planned maintenance programme, Eskom will this upcoming long weekend embark on yet another maintenance festival in order...
The national nuclear regulator says it has received two nuclear site license applications from power utility Eskom. The new reactors will be built along the east coast and the west coast of the country. The applications come as debate over the...
The National Energy Regulator (Nersa) approved a 9.4% electricity hike for 2016/17 on Tuesday. Eskom submitted an application to Nersa in November last year to recover R22.8bn, which the utility said it used to avert load shedding. The decision...
A community in Munsie-ville, Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg has been racked by protest for a second day as the municipality tried to disconnect illegal connections and restore electricity to those who pay for it. Electricity is a basic need in...
Public hearings into Eskom’s controversial application to NERSA to hike electricity tariffs by a hefty 16 and half percent this year are continuing in Johannesburg today. Representatives from the business community have lined up to slam the...
The Eastern Cape has kept the lights on in four defaulting municipalities by paying Eskom with money meant for building water infrastructure in an area now devastated by drought. Days later, the municipality, which was due to have got the money to...
