Loadshedding
Power trips at Rand Water an Eskom issue, says entity's chief as water woes continue
By: News24Wire 5th July 2023 Water outages in Johannesburg and Tshwane are a result of loadshedding, says Teboho Joala, Rand Water's chief shared services officer and acting... →
Updated loadshedding code includes up to 16 stages to reduce grid-collapse risk 
By: Terence Creamer 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... →
Eskom to implement Stages 1 and 3 loadshedding on Wednesday and Thursday
By: Creamer Media Reporter 4th July 2023 Power utility Eskom will implement Stage 1 loadshedding from 05:00 to 16:00 and Stage 3 loadshedding from 16:00 to midnight on Wednesday and... →
South Africa power outages may have reduced growth by 3.2 percentage points
By: Bloomberg 4th July 2023 South Africa’s energy crisis may have reduced the nation’s economic growth rate by as much as 3.2 percentage points last year and is likely to... →
De Beers, Botswana agree in principle on sales, mining licences
By: Martin Creamer 3rd July 2023 Diamond mining and marketing company De Beers and the Botswana government have reached an in principle agreement on a 25-year extension of the... →
Loadshedding suspended (briefly) on Friday night - then it's Stage 3 at peak hours
By: News24Wire 30th June 2023 Stage 3 loadshedding will be implemented from 16:00 on Friday until midnight. After that, it will be suspended until 16:00 on Saturday. Stage 3... →
Eskom debt plan can reduce South Africa risks, Moody’s says
By: Bloomberg 29th June 2023 South Africa’s plan to provide its struggling power utility debt relief and potentially write off municipalities’ arrears to Eskom Holdings will... →
The Reserve Bank is worried about Russia-linked sanctions – but a lot more worried about Eskom
By: News24Wire 28th June 2023 A year ago, the South African Reserve Bank was keeping an eye on what it mostly referred to as the "Russia-Ukraine conflict" in a general kind of... →
Eskom’s ‘onerous’ new grid access rules receive cool reception 
By: Terence Creamer 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
By: Terence Creamer 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... →
South Africa must not be complacent with reduced loadshedding – BLSA CEO
By: Cameron Mackay 26th June 2023 Any reduction in loadshedding is welcome, but South Africa must not let it lull the country into complacency, stresses business organisation... →
