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With petrol heading for a new record, do solar panels and an EV really work as a hedge against fuel and Eskom?
Three CambriLearn students entered the Eskom Expo in August. All three came back with medals.
No proposal has reached the regulator on making midday power cheaper to soak up surplus solar in South Africa.
The unbundling now has advisers, a timetable and, at last, agreement between Eskom and business.
GridCars founder Winstone Jordaan on what it takes to build a national EV charging network in South Africa, and what still stands in the way.
Teraco used 399GWh of electricity in 2025, three times its 2021 figure, with a new solar facility now due to come online next year.
Eskom’s profit more than doubled to R30.3-billion, but electricity sales fell 6.2% and municipal arrears passed R111-billion.
Electricity theft and unrecognised municipal revenue together exceed the utility’s entire annual profit.
Eskom has confirmed R36.8-billion of irregular expenditure relating to prior years, restated outside the financial statements.