Loadshedding
South Africa takes next step toward opening up electricity trade 
By: Bloomberg 15th March 2024 South Africa moved a step closer toward creating a competitive electricity market after legislation that establishes the framework cleared another... →
Loadshedding moves to Stage 3
By: Creamer Media Reporter 12th March 2024 Eskom will implement Stage 3 loadshedding from 16:00 on Tuesday to 05:00 on Wednesday and will repeat this pattern for the next few days. The move... →
South Africa won’t need Electricity Minister by end of 2024
By: Bloomberg 12th March 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said an anticipated improvement in electricity supply should see him out of a job by the end of 2024.... →
Ramaphosa assures Eskom working on increasing electricity generation capacity 
By: Thabi Shomolekae 11th March 2024 President Cyril Ramaphosa noted on Monday that Eskom, under the leadership of its new Group CEO, is finalising an agreement with business to deploy... →
Stationary hydrogen power highlighted as major solution by Toyota fuel cell-using developer
By: Martin Creamer 7th March 2024 When Engineering News & Mining Weekly covered last month’s local launch of BMW’s first hydrogen car fleet on South Africa's roads, we discovered... →
Move to formalise deal on injecting private skills into Eskom amid plan to add and recover 10.6 GW by end-2025
By: Terence Creamer 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
By: Terence Creamer 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’
By: Terence Creamer 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”... →
Eskom board tasks Marokane with three priorities in his first 100 days as CEO
By: Schalk Burger 1st March 2024 State-owned power utility Eskom's board of directors has tasked incoming CEO Dan Marokane to prioritise three key areas – assessing the generation... →
Multi-Party Charter reveals its plans to end loadshedding if ANC can be ousted
By: Darren Parker 28th February 2024 The 11 political parties that are members of the Multi-Party Charter (MPC) for South Africa have voiced a unified plan to end loadshedding once and... →
Ramokgopa says govt close to finalising structure for private grid financing
By: Terence Creamer 26th February 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says all the work being done by government on the financial structure to facilitate private investment... →
