Author: Paul Burkhardt

Just two years after winning the backing of one of the world’s biggest green infrastructure investors, a little-known South African company is rapidly redrawing the country’s energy map.

South Africa will allow eight coal-fired plants run by state-owned Eskom to breach emissions rules for years to come.

Eskom’s financial viability remains at risk even though it has stabilised the electricity supply, according to the auditor-general.

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.