Eskom is headed for another full-year a loss as fundamental problems remain even after making a profit of R83-million in the first half of its fiscal year.
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South African industry is already starting to wind down for the Christmas holidays, yet Eskom can’t keep the lights on — on a weekend!
Though Amazon.com is staying mum for now on details of its planned “utility-scale” renewable energy project in South Africa, it has emerged that it will source the power from a giant solar farm to be built in the Northern Cape.
Amazon.com said on Thursday that it is adding 26 new “utility-scale” wind and solar projects around the world, including facilities in South Africa, bringing the total number of such projects to 127.
Renewable energy procured from private generators contributed more than a quarter of the peak-time electricity South Africans consumed during the first half of 2020.
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.
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.