On 1 July, electricity costs for some of South Africa’s poorest people went up by as much as 60%.
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Hydrogen’s potential as a carbon-free fuel has led to huge excitement. Yet nobody seems interested in actually buying the stuff.
A group of Chinese companies has won a contract to build a 100MW solar plant in Botswana.
Eastgate Shopping Centre in Johannesburg now has the largest “registered” rooftop solar installation in Africa.
Herman Maritz is grateful that Eskom may finally have load shedding licked – even if that means fewer people are using the app formerly known as EskomSePush.
South Africa’s plan to expand its power grid, now the biggest bottleneck to replacing coal with renewables, has hit a snag.
Municipalities owe Eskom R82.3-billion in arrears, which the embattled power utility is struggling to collect.
Households are still installing rooftop solar despite South Africa’s now four-month-long reprieve from load shedding.
Making home geysers “smart” could be a major contributor to ending load shedding in South Africa forever.
Sawea has raised concerns about a decision to reject Eskom’s application to reserve grid capacity for renewable energy projects.