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Eskom concerned that domestic coal prices may migrate to export levels

State-owed electricity utility Eskom has again appealed for a domestic coal-pricing regime that is premised on an “efficient and transparent cost, with a fair return” rather than one that...

DA: Statement by Natasha Michael, DA Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises, on Eskom power cuts (23/04/2013)

STATEMENT

Today Eskom CEO Brian Dames appeared in Parliament and confirmed what the DA has been warning against for several months: load shedding is imminent and unavoidable.

FMF: Statement by the Free Market Foundation, independent policy organisation promoting economic freedom, questions Eskom's role as primary energy supplier (23/04/2013)

STATEMENT

For several years the FMF has warned that there is a real crisis in South Africa's electricity generation and distribution systems which, if left unresolved, will continue to cost the economy...

Daily podcast – April 23, 2013.

PODCAST

Communications Minister Dina Pule on Monday shot back at reports published in the Sunday Times, claiming that the “persistent smear campaign” against her was a result of a failed blackmail...

Eskom outlines plan to trim unplanned outages to 10%

ELECTRICITY SYSTEM

South Africa’s State-owned electricity utility Eskom has approved a new five-year generation strategy, premised on an ‘80:10:10 principle’, which implies average plant availability of 80%,...

SA: Malusi Gigaba: Address by the Minister of Public Enterprises, during the Power System Update, Megawatt Park, Johannesburg (22/04/2013)

SPEECH

It is gives me tremendous pleasure to stand before you this morning as Eskom is to table before the Nation the Power System Update. We have consistently undertaken this exercise in order to be...

Gigaba hints at new Eskom support after ‘difficult’ tariff ruling

ESKOM OUTLOOK

A joint Eskom, Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) task team would “within weeks” deliver its verdict on the implications of the regulator’s February decision to grant the utility yearly...

Dames selected for UN, World Bank global energy initiative committee

ENERGY

The United Nations and the World Bank on Friday announced its selection of 42 members for its global public–private partnership Sustainable Energy for All initiative. The advisory board, which...

SA: Malusi Gigaba: Address by the Minister of Public Enterprises, during the Frank Dialogue on Black Economic Empowerment, Rosebank, Johannesburg (19/04/2013)

SPEECH

South Africa has recently adopted the National Development Plan (NDP) whose theme, "Our Future - Make it Work", aptly captures the principal focus of this plan and what must pre-occupy the minds...

National Environment Management Act (107/1998): Basic assessment and water use license application for the proposed construction of the 132KV Dipompong and Tswaing Substations and their associated overhead power lines: Invitation to Comments (Gazette 36

Topics

Notice is given in terms of Regulations published in Government Notice R. 544 in Government Gazette No. 33306 of 18 June 2010, under Section 24(5) of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998...

The wealth that lies beneath African soil

WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS

The numerous renewable energy, economic and infrastructure developments on the African continent make it an attractive investment destination. All that is required to take successful African...

Medupi, Kusile contracts did not effectively incorporate transformation

INFRASTRUCTURE

Decisions around the awarding of contracts to build and maintain parastatal Eskom’s Kusile and Medupi coal-fired power stations were made during a “moment of crisis and urgency” and did not...

Daily podcast – April 12, 2013.

PODCAST

State-owned electricity utility Eskom has agreed with labour and contractors at the strike-prone Medupi coal-fired power station project, in Lephalale, Limpopo, to renegotiated the project labour...

SA: Malusi Gigaba: Address by the Minister of Public Works, on the occasion of a Ministerial visit to Medupi, Lephalale, Limpopo (11/04/2013)

SPEECH

In the last thirty years South Africa has under-invested in infrastructure including road, rail, energy and logistics and this, coupled with the current global economic slowdown, has consequently...

SA: Statement by North West Local Government and Traditional Affairs, on three Municipalities under administration (11/04/2013)

STATEMENT

In what could be described as taking the bulls by its horns by the North West provincial government, the Acting MEC for Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Paul Sebegoe, has implemented...

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