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Terence Creamer

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.

SAWEA wants IRP overhaul as it questions massively diminished role for wind in current draft

SAWEA wants IRP overhaul as it questions massively diminished role for wind in current draft

18th March 2024 The South African Wind Energy Association’s (SAWEA’s) formal response to the draft Integrated Resource Plan 2023 (IRP 2023) questions both the... 

Not so quiet revolution

Not so quiet revolution

15th March 2024 For several years, the roll-out of rooftop solar, batteries and inverters has been referred to as South Africa’s quite revolution. While Eskom... 

IPPO confirms May 30 renewables bid deadline as it moves to accommodate grid quotes and curtailment

IPPO confirms May 30 renewables bid deadline as it moves to accommodate grid quotes and curtailment

13th March 2024 The Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) has confirmed that the deadline for submissions under Bid Window Seven (BW7) of the Renewable Energy... 

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Eskom mulls integration of Vgbe report recommendations into revised recovery plan but hints at ‘inaccuracies’

Eskom mulls integration of Vgbe report recommendations into revised recovery plan but hints at ‘inaccuracies’

11th March 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom’s new CEO, Dan Marokane, will offer a comprehensive outline of a revised generation recovery... 

Mgojo says collaborative efforts will enable Transnet to report higher volumes than initially forecast

Mgojo says collaborative efforts will enable Transnet to report higher volumes than initially forecast

8th March 2024 Business Unity South Africa president Mxolisi Mgojo reports that the collaboration between business and government to turn around the performance... 

Progress, but too slow

Progress, but too slow

8th March 2024 There is growing impatience over the slow pace at which the South African government is moving to harness the $11.6-billion in concessional loans... 

Move to formalise deal on injecting private skills into Eskom amid plan to add and recover 10.6 GW by end-2025

Move to formalise deal on injecting private skills into Eskom amid plan to add and recover 10.6 GW by end-2025

6th March 2024 Government and business have set a goal of increasing South Africa’s electricity generation capacity by 10.6 GW by the end of 2025 as part of... 

Eskom says it is on track for permanent repair of Kusile stack by December

Eskom says it is on track for permanent repair of Kusile stack by December

5th March 2024 Eskom insists it is on track to complete the repairs to the ducts in the west stack at the Kusile power station by December 2024, ahead of the... 

Assessment of Eskom coal fleet warns ‘fixation on the EAF is a dead end’

Assessment of Eskom coal fleet warns ‘fixation on the EAF is a dead end’

1st March 2024 An expert assessment of the state of Eskom’s 14 coal-fired power stations conducted between March and May 2023 describes the prevailing “fixation”... 

PPP reforms could avert need for prescribed-assets policy to increase private infrastructure investment – Pieterse

PPP reforms could avert need for prescribed-assets policy to increase private infrastructure investment – Pieterse

1st March 2024 National Treasury director-general Dr Duncan Pieterse says the reforms being proposed to facilitate greater private sector investment into... 

Full transparency

Full transparency

1st March 2024 The decision to drawdown R150-billion from the Gold and Foreign Exchange Contingency Reserve Account (GFECRA) to reduce government borrowings and... 

Cabinet and business praise Sasol and TFR for ‘first-of-its-kind’ partnership to repair 128 ammonia tankers

Cabinet and business praise Sasol and TFR for ‘first-of-its-kind’ partnership to repair 128 ammonia tankers

29th February 2024 Both Cabinet and organised business have lauded the five-year public-private partnership agreement between Sasol and Transnet Freight Rail (TFR),... 

Business sees appointment of Phillips as key step in accelerating Transnet Recovery Plan

Business sees appointment of Phillips as key step in accelerating Transnet Recovery Plan

29th February 2024 Organised business says the appointment of a permanent executive team at Transnet – led by CEO Michelle Phillips, who has been acting in the role... 

Settling on funding solutions for expedited grid infrastructure set as a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan priority

Settling on funding solutions for expedited grid infrastructure set as a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan priority

27th February 2024 Finalising funding solutions for the expedited expansion of South Africa’s electricity transmission grid has been identified as a key priority for... 

Ramokgopa says govt close to finalising structure for private grid financing

Ramokgopa says govt close to finalising structure for private grid financing

26th February 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says all the work being done by government on the financial structure to facilitate private investment... 

Another 124 power plants registered with Nersa raising total to 1 087 since 2018

Another 124 power plants registered with Nersa raising total to 1 087 since 2018

23rd February 2024 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) reports that a further 124 generation facilities were registered during the third quarter of... 

Crunch time

Crunch time

23rd February 2024 The consequences of policy failure in electricity are so obvious there is no need to ventilate them again. Not so for gas, however, given that they... 

Eskom insists downward EAF slide has been ‘arrested’ amid Stage 4 loadshedding

Eskom insists downward EAF slide has been ‘arrested’ amid Stage 4 loadshedding

22nd February 2024 Eskom insists the performance of its unreliable generation fleet is on an improving trajectory, releasing a graphic-heavy statement on February 22... 

Godongwana draws down R150bn from gold and forex account to reduce borrowings and debt-service costs

Godongwana draws down R150bn from gold and forex account to reduce borrowings and debt-service costs

21st February 2024 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana unveiled a far-reaching reform in relation to government’s treatment of the Gold and Foreign Exchange Contingency... 

R4bn may be removed from Eskom debt-relief for failure to meet EFC sale deadline

R4bn may be removed from Eskom debt-relief for failure to meet EFC sale deadline

21st February 2024 The South African government is proposing to reduce its planned allocations to Eskom under a previously announced R254-billion debt-relief package... 

New fund to mobilise public and private funding to climate-proof existing essential infrastructure

New fund to mobilise public and private funding to climate-proof existing essential infrastructure

19th February 2024 President Cyril Ramaphosa has provided some additional background to the Climate Change Response Fund, the formation of which he announced in his... 

Climate Change Response Fund to channel resources to adaptation, early-warning systems – Creecy

Climate Change Response Fund to channel resources to adaptation, early-warning systems – Creecy

16th February 2024 Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy reports that the Climate Change Response Fund announced by President Cyril... 

Reform momentum

Reform momentum

16th February 2024 From an economic perspective, the most important signal provided by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address was that the... 

Ramaphosa promises ‘completely transformed energy landscape’ as he admits to loadshedding’s ‘devastating impact’

Ramaphosa promises ‘completely transformed energy landscape’ as he admits to loadshedding’s ‘devastating impact’

15th February 2024 President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged the “devastating impact” of almost daily loadshedding on the economy and the lives of South Africans but... 

Not practical to implement new ‘black box’ tariff rules from 2025, Eskom insists

Not practical to implement new ‘black box’ tariff rules from 2025, Eskom insists

12th February 2024 Eskom says the Electricity Pricing Determination Rules (EPDR) approved by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) in December cannot... 

Ramokgopa denies President’s pre-Stage 6 SoNA assertions caused embarrassment and insists loadshedding ‘corner has been turned’

Ramokgopa denies President’s pre-Stage 6 SoNA assertions caused embarrassment and insists loadshedding ‘corner has been turned’

11th February 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has move to defend the statement made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address... 

Worrying outlier

Worrying outlier

9th February 2024 The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) most recent report on the electricity sector includes a troubling section on Africa’s recent... 

Ramaphosa moots ‘innovative investment models’ for grid as he reiterates support for power and logistics reform

Ramaphosa moots ‘innovative investment models’ for grid as he reiterates support for power and logistics reform

8th February 2024 President Cyril Ramaphosa used his final State of the Nation Address ahead of upcoming elections to reiterate government’s commitment to reforms in... 

Standard Bank not expecting major fiscal slippage despite election pressures

Standard Bank not expecting major fiscal slippage despite election pressures

7th February 2024 Standard Bank chief economist Goolam Ballim does not anticipate “material fiscal slippage” in the 2024 Budget, despite expenditure pressures... 

Nersa makes far-reaching changes to tariff rules, but implementation timing uncertain

Nersa makes far-reaching changes to tariff rules, but implementation timing uncertain

6th February 2024 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved far-reaching changes to the way electricity tariffs will be set in future, but... 

Energy Council welcomes IRP extension, calls for strong reform message in SoNA

Energy Council welcomes IRP extension, calls for strong reform message in SoNA

6th February 2024 Energy Council CEO James Mackay has welcomed the decision of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy to extend the comment period for the... 

Nersa formally publishes licences for new grid company

Nersa formally publishes licences for new grid company

2nd February 2024 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has officially published on its website the three licences required for the... 

Grid unlocked

Grid unlocked

2nd February 2024 As the South African government seeks to re-establish some momentum behind the public procurement of new independent power producer (IPP)... 

IPPO ‘engaging’ with Eskom on implications of new curtailment rules for current renewables bid window

IPPO ‘engaging’ with Eskom on implications of new curtailment rules for current renewables bid window

30th January 2024 The Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) reports that it is engaging with Eskom on its newly released curtailment addendum to the latest... 

Big procurement year

Big procurement year

26th January 2024 The coming year is poised to be the most active ever for the public procurement of new electricity generation capacity. Besides shepherding the... 

Independent transmission project office to be set up to procure new grid using build, operate, transfer model

Independent transmission project office to be set up to procure new grid using build, operate, transfer model

23rd January 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that government plans to establish an independent transmission project office, located either at... 

Marokane to officially report for duty as Eskom CEO on March 1

Marokane to officially report for duty as Eskom CEO on March 1

19th January 2024 Eskom has announced that Dan Marokane – who was named group CEO on December 8, almost a full year after André de Ruyter formally resigned – will... 

Gas lock-in

Gas lock-in

19th January 2024 “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail,” the quote, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reads. What happens, however, when your plan is a... 

Grid constraints cast shadow over South Africa’s seventh renewables bid window

Grid constraints cast shadow over South Africa’s seventh renewables bid window

17th January 2024 South Africa’s grid constraints are continuing to cast a shadow over the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme... 

Sasol’s Mabelane to head board at Eskom’s unbundled grid company, NTCSA

Sasol’s Mabelane to head board at Eskom’s unbundled grid company, NTCSA

9th January 2024 The inaugural board of directors of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA), which was announced by the Eskom board on Tuesday,... 

Ramokgopa seeks to unlock private finance for 6 000 km of new grid in coming three years

Ramokgopa seeks to unlock private finance for 6 000 km of new grid in coming three years

9th January 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the current plan for rolling out grid infrastructure, particularly in the coming three years, is... 

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