Terence Creamer
Terence Creamer is the Editor of Engineering News and a Deputy Editor for Mining Weekly. He also has editorial responsibility for Polity.org.za and Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa.
Here we go?
8th September 2023 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has confirmed that he aims to secure Cabinet approval to publish an updated Integrated... →
G7 Renewable Energies withdraws case against Eskom's interim grid rules
7th September 2023 G7 Renewable Energies has withdrawn its High Court review against Eskom's Interim Grid Capacity Allocation Rules (IGCAR), following what it... →
Rise in planned maintenance, spike in breakdowns trigger ‘unwelcome’ Stage 6 return
5th September 2023 Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has attributed the “unwelcome” resumption of Stage 6 loadshedding, during which business and... →
Creecy calls for non-debt instruments to help Africa build climate resiliency
4th September 2023 South Africa’s Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has again called for new financial instruments, particularly non-debt instruments, to be... →
New Transnet chair hints at possible equity injection as group slumps to R5.7bn loss
1st September 2023 New Transnet chairperson Andile Sangqu has indicated that the troubled State-owned freight logistics group, which has hitherto prided itself on... →
Laggard costs
1st September 2023 The cost of failing to keep pace with what is required economically and environmentally for energy sustainability should surely now be plain for... →
Mantashe aiming to secure Cabinet approval for ‘IRP 2023’ in Sept
29th August 2023 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is aiming to seek Cabinet approval to publish an updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for... →
Eskom mulling new curtailment approach to unlocking grid capacity as it pursues 47 priority projects
25th August 2023 State-owned utility Eskom has confirmed that it is prioritising 47 grid-related projects within its larger R210-billion Transmission Development... →
Ongoing distortions
25th August 2023 As has been highlighted in this column previously, South Africa’s energy transition has become a highly contested topic and is, thus, a hotbed for... →
Inoperative Kusile units could be returned earlier as Eskom reports good progress on temporary stacks
24th August 2023 The temporary stacks being introduced at the Kusile coal power station, where three previously operational units have been out of service for ten... →
Xi says China ready to import more from ‘strategic partner' South Africa
22nd August 2023 Chinese President Xi Jinping says China stands ready to import more quality products from South Africa, while also encouraging Chinese enterprises... →
Bank of China, IDC sign agreement on R10bn funding package
22nd August 2023 South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the Bank of China (BoC) have signed a framework agreement that could unlock a... →
Weakest link
18th August 2023 The attention being paid to the national electricity crisis appears to be yielding some results, albeit insufficient in speed and scale to fully... →
With R9.2bn spent since April, govt insists Eskom is not exceeding diesel budget
13th August 2023 Government reports that Eskom has spent R9.2-billion on diesel since the start of the State-owned utility’s financial year on April 1, which it... →
Eskom unbundling, ERA promulgation will demonstrate electricity reform ‘political will’
11th August 2023 Energy Council of South Africa CEO James Mackay believes an expedited promulgation of the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Bill together with... →
Where’s the urgency?
11th August 2023 The Energy Regulator’s decision to transfer the transmission facilities licence to the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTC) is indeed a... →
Koeberg Unit 1 now only scheduled to re-enter operation on November 3
10th August 2023 State-owned electricity utility Eskom has confirmed that Unit 1 at the Koeberg nuclear power station, in the Western Cape, is currently scheduled... →
Presidency says progress being made to increase grant funding for Just Energy Transition Investment Plan
8th August 2023 The Presidency is exploring several avenues for increasing the grant component in the financing of South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Investment... →
Post-truth energy politics
4th August 2023 In any healthy democracy, debate is not only vital but should be encouraged. However, a healthy democracy also requires that the contestation of... →
Presidency, business call for expedited passage during current Parliamentary term of Bill overhauling electricity market
2nd August 2023 The Presidency and organised business have called for the passage of the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Bill to be expedited within the... →
One-year progress report says rooftop installations have doubled since start of Energy Action Plan
31st July 2023 Despite ongoing loadshedding, President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved to highlight some of the implementation progress under the Energy Action Plan... →
Renewables rhythm
28th July 2023 Once lauded as an international benchmark, South Africa’s Renewable Energy independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has struggled... →
CEOs from 115 companies pledge to help rebuild South Africa
27th July 2023 CEOs from over 115 leading corporations operating in South Africa and which collectively employ 1.2-million people and have a combined market value... →
Skea confirmed as new IPCC chair in election involving SA candidate
26th July 2023 The UK’s Jim Skea has been confirmed as the new chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), following an election that included... →
IFC ready to support private grid investment in South Africa
25th July 2023 The World Bank’s private sector financier, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has indicated a willingness to fund public–private... →
The disruptive power of words
21st July 2023 In his speech at the launch of the book ‘Reluctant Prophet: Tributes to Albert Nolan OP’, Fr Peter-John Pearson reflected that, how even in death,... →
Time to act
21st July 2023 Three recent international publications have underlined just how urgent it is for South Africa to respond to the challenges and opportunities being... →
South Africa urged to elevate universal electricity access to status of education to fight extreme poverty
20th July 2023 Calls are growing for government to overhaul its free basic energy (FBE) scheme amid indications that fewer than a quarter of qualifying indigent... →
Eskom system operator doesn’t foresee grid instability should both Koeberg units be offline simultaneously
19th July 2023 Eskom’s system operator GM, Isabel Fick, does not foresee the Western Cape power grid being materially destabilised if both of Koeberg’s two... →
‘Reluctant Prophet’ book pays tribute to activist priest and theologian Albert Nolan
18th July 2023 A book of tributes to Albert Nolan, the renowned South African Catholic priest, author, theologian and anti-apartheid activist, has been published... →
Ramokgopa deeply worried about prospect of both Koeberg units being unavailable due to Unit 1 outage slip
17th July 2023 Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has expressed deep concern that another delay to the return to service of Koeberg Unit 1 could result... →
Shift in focus
14th July 2023 While it is far too early to declare victory over loadshedding, with many perils still to overcome across many fronts, Electricity Minister Dr... →
As cold front hits, Ramokgopa expects loadshedding intensity to remain in check as attention turns to reducing frequency of cuts
9th July 2023 Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the first part of the Energy Action Plan’s (EAP’s) two-part goal of reducing the intensity of... →
Help or hindrance?
7th July 2023 It’s far from ideal that several of South Africa’s main micro-economic problems are being managed by crisis committees made up of government... →
Updated loadshedding code includes up to 16 stages to reduce grid-collapse risk
4th July 2023 A new and updated edition of the loadshedding code of practice, which includes up to 16 stages of loadshedding, has been finalised by and expert... →
Least-cost foundation
30th June 2023 There is no question that South Africa truly does need to update its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), with the demand, supply and technology cost... →
Eskom’s ‘onerous’ new grid access rules receive cool reception
27th June 2023 Eskom’s newly released Interim Grid Capacity Allocation Rules (IGCAR), formulated in response to surging demand for grid access in a context of... →
Weather and winter tariff on large users helping to moderate electricity demand
26th June 2023 Eskom is expecting demand for the rest of South Africa’s winter months to remain below levels initially assumed when the utility finalised its base... →
Energy trading firm believes revenue-neutral wheeling model can help curb municipal grid defection
23rd June 2023 Regulator-licensed South African electricity trader Enpower Trading is promoting wheeling and trading over municipal networks as a way of... →
Explaining is losing
23rd June 2023 The hackneyed political phrase ‘if you're explaining, you're losing’, probably best describes the predicament in which the South African government... →
Two-thirds of energy transition finance in developing economies to be private – report
21st June 2023 Yearly clean energy investments in emerging and developing economies will need to more than triple from $770-billion currently to as much as... →