South Africa will allow eight coal-fired plants run by state-owned Eskom to breach emissions rules for years to come.
Browsing: Eskom
Eskom has added 800MW of new generation capacity to the grid after bringing Kusile’s final unit online.
The US is stalling $2.6-billion in climate finance, stoking concerns the money might be blocked outright.
Eskom has once again implemented load shedding, again blaming outages at its coal-fired power plants.
Nersa has approved tariff increases for Eskom’s direct and municipal customers from April and July.
Despite the abeyance in load shedding for much of 2024, Eskom did not add any new generation capacity to the grid.
Government will reduce its debt relief package for state-owned power utility Eskom by a further R20-billion.
Eskom suspended load shedding at 10am on Sunday after recovering more than 3GW of generating capacity.
The dreaded Eskom power cuts are back again, for the third time this year, with stage-3 outages until Monday.
An influential South African government agency has recommended the country phase out coal-fired power stations.