Parts of Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, are being subjected to renewed water-supply cuts as ongoing electricity shortages disrupt pumping operations.
Author: Paul Burkhardt
South Africa has entered a critical phase of revamping its sole nuclear plant and needs it to run according to plan.
France’s Engie expects to move forward with three South African solar projects this week.
Government said it’s urgently seeking funds to buy diesel that’s needed to fuel some of Eskom’s power plants.
Johannesburg is seeking electricity supply from private generators to reduce the amount of scheduled power outages.
Eskom has revived a proposal to build a hydropower plant that was mothballed more than a decade ago.
Eskom’s Komati coal-fired power plant has secured R9-billion from the World Bank and other funders to generate renewable energy from the site.
Here’s how implementation of the emergency plan to resolve South Africa electricity supply crisis has progressed.
South Africa will need to build solar and wind plants at a blistering pace – almost nine times faster than it previously has – over the next decade.
South Africa, which has been experiencing energy shortages since 2008, is in the throes of its worst power cuts on record.