Author: Paul Burkhardt

It’s now been seven months – and counting – since the country’s last episode of load shedding.

Renergen has accused a solar energy project of “unauthorised construction” in at a site in the Free State.

The deal with Karpowership to supply electricity to the country is “dead in the water”, the electricity minister said.

Eskom has been using diesel-fuelled auxiliary turbines extensively to stave off power cuts.

Government is considering measures to offset a proposed power-price hike, including delaying plans to raise carbon taxes.

South Africa is running out of power lines to transmit electricity from new projects, an official has reiterated.

The recovery of South Africa’s two biggest state-owned companies relies on one common component.

Nersa has distanced itself from criticism by one of its senior officials over the body’s handling of electricity tariff increases.

Eskom plans to compete with private power developers by replacing coal with cleaner technologies over the next decade.

Eskom plans to bring coal and nuclear units online before 2025 that will improve the proportion of available generation capacity.