Teraco has signed a power purchase agreement for wind-powered renewable energy for its sprawling data centres.
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Eskom has reduced the intensity of load shedding after the recovery of multiple plants that had failed at the weekend.
The electricity utility lost 10 generating units at the weekend but has said it is making good progress in restoring them to service.
Eskom implemented stage-6 load shedding on Sunday after multiple generating units at Camden tripped.
After a lull of a almost three weeks, load shedding has once again made an unwelcome return.
Electricity demand is set to increase sharply in the coming years as demand from industry and data centres accelerates.
Africa50 is setting up an investment vehicle dedicated to off-grid power companies and plans a $500-million fund.
Stage-3 load shedding will begin again on Friday evening after a 10-month reprieve from Eskom’s rolling power cuts.
South Africans cannot be expected to pay indefinitely for Eskom’s failures, writes Outa’s Wayne Duvenage.
Stage-4 load shedding is a distinct possibility this weekend, the state-owned electricity utility has warned.