No proposal has reached the regulator on making midday power cheaper to soak up surplus solar in South Africa.
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The unbundling now has advisers, a timetable and, at last, agreement between Eskom and business.
Eskom’s profit more than doubled to R30.3-billion, but electricity sales fell 6.2% and municipal arrears passed R111-billion.
Electricity theft and unrecognised municipal revenue together exceed the utility’s entire annual profit.
Eskom has confirmed R36.8-billion of irregular expenditure relating to prior years, restated outside the financial statements.
Eskom and BLSA now say they agree on the independent transmission operator, two months after a public falling-out.
Koeberg unit 1 tripped just before 1am on Thursday. Unit 2 has been down since April. No load shedding is expected.
A 148MW solar plant in Limpopo now supplies a Rio Tinto-owned smelter 600km away in KwaZulu-Natal.
Carbon capture makes coal dearer every year, while solar and batteries get cheaper with every passing quarter.
South Africa’s miners are buying their own power, and Eskom is no longer the default supplier of electricity.