Nigeria’s national electricity grid collapsed on Sunday, the Transmission Company of Nigeria said in a statement. Power outages in Nigeria are common but a system collapse is unusual.
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The ANC has proposed using state-run unemployment and compensation fund surpluses to help rescue Eskom, raising the ire of labour unions.
It sounds like science-fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. But scientists are making huge strides in turning the concept into reality.
Gianfranco Campetti, a major driving force behind the introduction of South Africa’s new electrical plug and socket standard and a recent guest on TechCentral’s podcast, has passed away.
Toshiba said it will stop taking orders for new coal-fired power plants as it makes a wider push to embrace renewable energy, though will still complete work on about 10 further facilities.
Debt-ridden Eskom may eliminate carbon emissions at its power plants only by 2050, according to a government taskforce.
A drive to shift South Africa’s electricity production to renewable energy is threatening as many as 120 000 jobs at coal mines and power plants that use the fuel, a research consultancy said.
Eskom on Friday said it made a net loss of R20.5-billion in its financial year ending in March 2020, down slightly from R20.9-billion the previous year.
South Africa’s biggest cities are preparing to source their own power after the energy ministry this month approved letting them wean themselves off the state utility.
Eskom, the indebted South African state power utility, will announce its annual results this week after a three-month delay.