Nearly half of the projects awarded under the relaunch of South Africa’s renewable power purchase programme have failed.
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Solar has become a popular choice for South Africans wanting to overcome load shedding. But is it a fire risk?
Jan Oberholzer has quit the state-owned utility and will leave at the end of the month.
To reach “net zero”, the world may need as many 200 000 offshore wind turbines generating 2TW of energy.
Government is making overtures to power plant OEMs to become more involved in the running of the utility.
Eskom will continue to impose load shedding at stage 6 – equalling the worst cuts the utility has imposed.
Companies yet to complete financing arrangements to build 1.85GW of generation capacity may soon lose the right to connect to the national grid.
The intensification comes just days after the electricity minister praised Eskom for maintaining lower levels of load shedding.
Eskom has ramped up the use of its emergency generation facilities since the weekend.
Higher demand for electricity as a result of a powerful cold front has meant intensified load shedding.