Real Economy
Good money after bad?
By: Terence Creamer 16th February 2018 It seems an eternity since there has been anything to be excited about when it comes to South Africa’s most important, and most embattled,... →
Disrupting mindsets
By: Terence Creamer 9th February 2018 The main disruption in the global energy milieu over the past five years has been a “disruption in the mindset,” Engie CEO Isabelle Kocher asserted... →
It’s déjà vu all over again
By: Terence Creamer 2nd February 2018 For those of us in the media, Eskom is the gift that keeps on giving. For ten years, hardly a week has gone by without the embattled power utility... →
Surgery not a Band-Aid
By: Terence Creamer 26th January 2018 Eskom’s debt refinancing is undoubtedly a critical burning platform. The clock is most definitely ticking and the consequences of not closing the... →
Fix or fail
By: Terence Creamer 19th January 2018 2018 is set to be yet another big year for the South African electricity utility, which has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons for... →
2017: Good, bad, ugly?
By: Terence Creamer 15th December 2017 By this time next week, our general dismal assessment of 2017 will either have been confirmed, or entirely overhauled. If Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma... →
Forced self-correction
By: Terence Creamer 8th December 2017 I could not agree more with Energy Minister David Mahlobo’s recent Parliamentary reply, in which he stated that there was no longer a need to build... →
Eskom’s tin ear
By: Terence Creamer 1st December 2017 There very were few sharp exchanges during the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) public hearings into Eskom’s 2018/19 revenue... →
Game Changers
By: Terence Creamer 24th November 2017 Without doubt, the problems at Eskom, together with the ongoing debate over nuclear, are making it extremely difficult for South Africans to pay... →
We have a demand problem, Minister 
By: Terence Creamer 17th November 2017 National Energy Regulator of South Africa and Eskom executives will naturally be relieved that hearings into the State-owned utility’s revenue... →
