POWER utility Eskom has asked the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to increase electricity tariffs for the next five years by an average 16% a year. Over the next five years, electricity prices will, therefore, more than double...
Delays in the implementation of the country’s electricity master plan, the Integrated Resources Plan 2010 (IRP 2010), showed a lack of leadership and would place an economic recovery in jeopardy, say experts. Professors Ernst Uken and Philip Lloyd...
Eskom has declined to comment on a news report that it would ask the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to almost double electricity prices over the next five years. “We are busy finalising our application and will be...
Vela VKE, a part of the SMEC Group, currently forms part of Mokolo Crocodile Consultants (MCC), a joint venture between five consulting engineering firms established to implement the R15 billion Mokolo Crocodile River (West) Water Augmentation...
The assumptions, the funding, the efficiencies, the current build programme and the next generation of build required. Paul O’Flaherty, a South African Chartered Accountant [CA(SA)] with extensive local and international experience was appointed...
Eskom denied planning to retrench 17 000 contract workers at its Medupi power plant in Limpopo. “This is not correct,” said spokeswoman Hilary Joffe, last Tuesday. “There are currently more than 17 000 workers on site at Medupi...
The DA on Monday tabled proposals seeking to promote more private sector involvement in South Africa’s infrastructure-build plan. The proposals were aimed at “curbing the potential for large-scale corruption” related to big...
Revelations that electricity from Medupi could come in at an estimated 97c/kWh suggest South Africa could have got better value from renewable technologies such as wind. The power utility told parliamentarians that finance charges on its new power...
Africa faces a major energy crisis and half of the sub-Saharan African population will be without power by 2030. This is according to a recent study by the World Bank’s energy unit. The report shows that of the 54 countries in Africa, almost half,...
