Browsing: Energy and sustainability

A sluggish renewables roll-out and a looming 2029 supply gap may complicate the timing of Eskom’s plant closures.

Solving energy supply at the production level has not solved power availability problems at municipal level, new data shows.

A draft scoping report says the site is the most viable, but a heritage protection order could complicate the process.

Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.

Rural electrification is lighting up the Earth at night. But war, blackouts and energy policy are darkening some regions.

A Cape Town start-up has powered an entire Netflix television production base camp on the sun for six months.

South Africa’s wholesale power market was set to launch on 1 April – that date has now slipped.

Zimi and Charge Holdings have signed a deal to support electric freight operations along the N3 highway.

Eskom has marked 300 consecutive days without load shedding, with plant outages down 53% year on year.

A decade of advocacy has laid the groundwork for energy wheeling in South Africa. Here’s what comes next.