Eskom, which supplies almost all South Africa’s electricity from coal-fired power plants, is considering spending R106-billion on wind and solar energy by 2030.
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It sounds implausible: a technology that could unleash nearly unlimited clean energy. Yet sustainable nuclear fusion, long hypothesised, took a step closer to reality this month.
South Africa has started geological mapping at the country’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) site, where it plans to…
An environmental lobby group has told energy regulator Nersa that the electricity generation licence process for Karpowership SA’s floating power ships is “fatally flawed”.
Eskom was able to avoid national rolling blackouts on Thursday evening, but only because there was a reduction in demand and because it made extensive use of emergency generation resources.
South Africa is again on the brink of load shedding after Eskom was forced to take several power generating units off the grid on Thursday.
Eskom plans to reduce its output of coal-fired power by between 8GW and 10GW through plant closures over the next decade, a cut that amounts to up to 30% of its current capacity.
Scientists have yet to start a fusion reaction that sustainably produces more energy than it uses. But excitement has grown as government and private plans move closer to the “net-energy gain” threshold.
Eskom has denied a media report that the company is actively recruiting new employees, saying it is “not hiring any new staff” and that there is “no recruitment drive”.
Government on Thursday published changes to the Electricity Regulation Act, making it official that power producers of up to 100MW will not require a licence from energy regulator Nersa to operate.