National Treasury says the issues surrounding electricity constraints are receiving attention at the highest level, following the Fitch Ratings agency’s decision to cut growth forecasts. The key drivers for the decision included weak economic...
The Department of Science and Technology will invest heavily in research and infrastructure of the medium term, according to Minister Naledi Pandor. Briefing journalists at the Imbizo Centre in Parliament ahead of the department’s Budget Vote, the...
The ANC says there is no debate in the party, regarding the privatisation of Eskom, saying that privatisation of the state utility, has never been discussed. However, the ruling party says a government-sponsored commission says privatisation is one...
A wildcat strike at the building site of South African electricity utility Eskom’s Medupi power station entered its sixth week on Wednesday, disrupting construction of the crucial plant. Thousands of workers at Medupi, which started producing...
Power utility Eskom has entered into payment agreements with 10 out of the 20 defaulting municipalities which owe Eskom for non-payment of bulk electricity supply. Last month, Eskom announced that it had moved to notify all parties who are likely...
Eskom has hailed its commissioning of a new 1 billion rand high voltage substation in the Western Cape – a milestone. The Kappa substation is able to transport up to 765 thousand volts at any given time. Not only is it the first to be...
Eskom needs to find an additional 3 000 Megawatts of power in order to maintain power plants without implementing load shedding, according to the utility’s newly appointed acting CEO Brian Molefe. Moefe said this when the Eskom Board, led by acting...
Eskom’s Sere Wind Farm near Vredendal in the Western Cape has achieved its full commercial operational capacity of 100MW. In a statement on Monday, the utility said the wind farm achieved full commercial operational capacity on 31 March in line...
The electricity war room, which was set up in December to address South Africa’s energy challenges is making strides. This is according to Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown. Briefing journalists in Cape Town on Wednesday, the Minister...
