London-based private equity firm Actis is looking at African energy projects to add to the US$1-billion it has already invested in the sector on the continent.
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Eskom has attached a bank account belonging to the Matjhabeng municipality in the Free State, which includes the town of Welkom, in response to R3.4-billion in outstanding debt for the provision of bulk electricity.
Eskom has read the riot act to “apathetic” managers at its power stations, calling for an “urgent culture change” in the organisation, as the state-owned monopoly plunges the country into severe load shedding.
Eskom has suspended the managers of three of its biggest generating plants as the company suffers crippling electricity outages, people familiar with the situation said.
Eskom’s gross debt increased to R488-billion as of March 2020, from R440-billion a year earlier, the firm said in a presentation to parliament on Wednesday.
A promising new family of materials known as halide perovskites – semiconductors that conduct charges when stimulated with light – could have a transformative impact on the global energy market.
Companies routinely set targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. But a new kind of environmental target is emerging that has been likened to paying reparations to victims of past injustice.
Winter may be officially over, but that’s not going to stop Eskom from implementing rotational electricity blackouts this Spring Day.
A R32-billion infrastructure fund owned by Old Mutual said South Africa should start with power as it embarks on a R2.3-trillion drive to lure private investment into infrastructure over the next decade.
With South Africa’s biggest state utility in crisis, one of parliament’s most important financial oversight committees called an urgent online meeting with the company.