Loadshedding
Standard Bank not expecting major fiscal slippage despite election pressures 
By: Terence Creamer 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
By: Terence Creamer 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
By: Terence Creamer 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... →
Collaboration and grid investment key to making 2024 a turning point in SA’s power crisis
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 2nd February 2024 If South Africa’s energy investment programmes and reforms continue, the energy availability factor (EAF) for State-owned utility Eskom’s coal... →
Night loadshedding escalates to Stage 3
By: News24Wire 29th January 2024 Loadshedding will jump to Stage 3 at 16:00 Monday after a delay in the return to service of two generating units. "Over the past 24 hours, five... →
Independent transmission project office to be set up to procure new grid using build, operate, transfer model 
By: Terence Creamer 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
By: Terence Creamer 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... →
Full weekend of power cuts as generation units fail
By: News24Wire 12th January 2024 Eskom has warned South Africans to prepare for a full weekend of power cuts. The utility said stage 3 load shedding would be implemented at 16:00... →
Sasol’s Mabelane to head board at Eskom’s unbundled grid company, NTCSA
By: Terence Creamer 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
By: Terence Creamer 9th January 2024 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the current plan for rolling out grid infrastructure, particularly in the coming three years, is... →
South Africa moves to procure 5GW of renewables, 2GW of gas-to-power, 615 MW of battery storage
By: Terence Creamer 14th December 2023 The South African government has released three requests for proposals (RFPs) for new electricity generation and storage capacity, including 5 000... →
