Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa wants bilateral traders to pay a wheeling fee that funds free electricity for the poor.
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South Africa outscores Germany, the US and the UK in a new electrification index. But the country is doing poorly in EV adoption.
Metacom founder Réan van Niekerk on 25 years of building routers without any venture capital.
Unbundling Eskom’s transmission assets into an independent operator is the durable fix. It must happen fast.
Battery storage planned for the next decade is being brought forward because the grid is throwing away surplus power.
Draft rules would bar trading bots from South Africa’s new wholesale electricity platform at launch.
Eskom wants to sell surplus power to bitcoin miners, but energy regulator Nersa’s paper leaves key questions open.
Outa welcomes the open-ended waiver but wants Eskom to justify registering systems that never export power.
South Africa’s private power boom has created a billing problem most finance teams can’t solve.
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has announced Mteto Nyati will stay on as Eskom chairman.