Browsing: Energy and sustainability

Suspending a plan to retire 11.3GW of Eskom’s coal-fired plant could lead to more than 15 000 deaths.

There’s no need to turn our geysers off. Instead, South Africa should be driving the adoption of smart geysers.

If you have one of the 6.8 million prepaid electricity meters that need to be recoded, you have nothing to fear, according to Eskom.

South Africa may be able to raise as much as R1.13-trillion over the next five years to fund a switch to green energy.

The World Bank is in talks about a potential $1-billion loan to help South Africa reform its energy sector.

The JSE has made a play to corner the continent’s nascent carbon market.

Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said South Africa has “turned a corner” in terms of electricity generation.

South Africa’s near-fourfold increase in rooftop solar in the past year has reduced revenue at Eskom.

Virtual wheeling, being trialled by Vodacom and Eskom, could be one of the answers to the ongoing energy crisis.

Eskom has run a successful pilot of virtual wheeling. But what is it, and how could it change South Africa’s energy industry?