South Africa will resolve its electricity challenges, President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a visit to the Redstone solar plant in the Northern Cape.
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The outlook for load shedding for the foreseeable future has deteriorated significantly.
Three Eskom contractors and an Eskom employee have been arrested for alleged criminal activity at two of the utility’s power stations.
South Africa wants to spend billions of dollars fostering an electric vehicle industry, complicating efforts to finalise an $8.5-billion climate aid package.
The solution to environmental damage is to bring a halt to debt-fuelled consumption, not to point a finger of blame at bitcoin, writes Rob Price.
Eskom said it expects to reduce the intensity of load shedding by midnight, after which a mix of stage-2 and stage-3 cuts will be implemented.
Sasol is partnering steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa to explore carbon capture technology and steel production using green hydrogen.
South Africa, the world’s 13th biggest source of climate-warming greenhouse gases, will unveil details on how it plans to cut emissions next month.
Eskom had an ugly surprise for South Africans as they woke up on Tuesday morning: stage-4 load shedding had returned.
Eskom on Friday signed lease agreements with private power producers for the construction of renewable energy plants on its land in Mpumalanga.