Telkom fought to keep its network and South Africa lost a decade. Eskom risks making the same mistake.
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A quartet of newly approved projects is chasing spare grid capacity, not South Africa’s best solar resources.
Load shedding ended in 2025 – now the power cuts nobody talks about are ending, too.
Zesa says a major electrical fault cut interconnections with neighbouring utilities, collapsing local generation.
Johannesburg’s R5.3-billion debt threatens its power supply, but the even bigger fight is over structural electricity reform.
Eskom renewables chief Rivoningo Mnisi names the solar, battery and hydro projects that will be built first.
Eskom Green is targeting up to 32GW by 2040, with the board insisting it will partner private developers, not compete with them.
Rating agency Moody’s has warned that carving transmission out of Eskom could weaken its creditworthiness.
South Africa moved to fix the car industry’s right-to-repair gap in 2021; nothing similar for electronics has followed.
The R1.2-billion solar plant will supply about 60 000 households and anchors a pipeline of 17 projects across 11 stations.