Opposition parties’ fortunes will be boosted on election day if they offer credible and effective alternatives to load shedding.
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Energy minister Gwede Mantashe said expecting a rapid transition to clean energy would be “very wrong”.
Due to lower demand and improvement in Eskom’s generating plant, no load shedding is expected over the Easter long weekend.
The country needs to build and fund a R390-billion expansion of the national grid so it can connect more power plants.
South Africa has moved a step closer towards creating a competitive electricity market.
The electricity minister said an anticipated improvement in electricity supply should see him out of a job by the end of 2024.
The utility’s key revision number project looks set to be completed by the November deadline.
Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan will retire after this year’s general elections on 29 May, he said on Friday.
We are facing a new blow to energy availability in our economy, with a cliff in natural gas supply just over two years away.
A new report has listed a litany of problems at Eskom’s coal plants, including complex and “dysfunctional” management systems.