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Daily Podcast – May 11, 2023
By: Thabi Shomolekae 11th May 2023 Making headlines: Cabinet assures SA of govt effort to ‘prevent attempts to collapse national grid’; Mapisa-Nqakula wants Mkhwebane fitness inquiry... →
Cabinet assures SA of govt effort to ‘prevent attempts to collapse national grid’ 
By: Thabi Shomolekae 11th May 2023 Cabinet stressed on Thursday that government is working closely with embattled State-owned enterprise Eskom to fast-track the repair of power... →
‘Project Manager’ Ramokgopa postpones statement on Energy Plan
11th May 2023 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, at the eleventh hour, postponed his highly anticipated address to Parliament today. The Minister was... →
Ramokgopa: Running diesel plants may be costly, but loadshedding is far worse
By: News24Wire 10th May 2023 Eskom will likely exceed its diesel budget this financial year, but the cost of load shedding to the economy would be far worse, said Electricity... →
Gauteng gold mine being blown away by wind’s potential as Reef electricity source
By: Martin Creamer 5th May 2023 Although Gauteng dwellers have tended to dismiss wind as a renewable energy provider from this region, some are now being blown away by the gusts... →
Minister of Suggestions in the Presidency ignores long-term impacts of proposed short-term solutions to load-shedding
3rd May 2023 In his latest pronouncements on solving the electricity crisis, Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has suggested that one of his immediate proposals is... →
Cabinet targets 1 000 MW of demand-side savings as winter approaches 
By: Terence Creamer 28th April 2023 Cabinet reports that a target has been set to save about 1 000 MW, or the equivalent of one stage of loadshedding, through demand side management... →
South Africa weighs mega renewable-energy tender to curb outages
By: Bloomberg 25th April 2023 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa proposed a “mega bid window” for the procurement of renewable energy to curb rolling blackouts, even as... →
