Government is accelerating plans for 3GW of gas-fired power generation, the electricity minister said.
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Eskom will suspend daytime load shedding on Monday, and it will stay suspended until further notice.
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has declared that the worst of the load shedding crisis is over. Is he right?
Eskom said pollution from its coal-fired plants kills about 330 people a year.
South Africa’s hopes for a raft of new power projects to help it out of a crippling energy crisis are fading.
Eskom said on Tuesday that its net loss in the financial year that ended in March 2023 had widened to R23.9-billion.
Eskom will hand over responsibility for almost all load shedding in Johannesburg to City Power from 6 November.
Luminous Power Technologies, a subsidiary of Schneider Electric, has entered the South African market.
The longest break in load shedding since last year ended on Sunday afternoon.
Karpowership has won environmental authorisation to moor a ship-mounted power plant in Richards Bay.