The release of South Africa’s long-awaited update to the Integrated Resource Plan is certain to inspire renewed debate about the country’s energy future. Once public consultation has taken place, the plan will drive policy
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South Africa’s decision to stall plans championed by President Jacob Zuma to build nuclear plants has exposed his waning authority. News of the delay came on Tuesday when the department of energy said additional atomic power won’t come on stream
South Africa has delayed plans to build new nuclear power plants over concern about their cost and the waning demand for additional electricity as economic growth stalls. Under a new timeline, the first nuclear power is expected to
If you ask me, we hear too much from those who sell technology and too little from those who use it. They certainly get the opportunities at numerous closed-doors corporate meetings, where the people selling do all the listening
With news of state capture making headlines across South Africa, and the unexpected resignation of the state power utility’s CEO Brian Molefe, it was easy to overlook an annexure in the finance minister’s medium
The department of energy will in the next few days unveil South Africa’s new integrated energy plan, minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe said on Thursday. Briefing the media on the outcomes of a cabinet meeting
Mark Pamensky, who is a director of a company owned by South Africa’s Gupta family that has ties with President Jacob Zuma’s son, resigned as a board member at state-owned Eskom, less than a week after the utility’s CEO quit. Recommendations will be made
Brian Molefe, the CEO of South Africa’s state-owned power utility, said he will leave Eskom following the release of a report by the nation’s graft ombudsman into the influence of the wealthy Gupta family on the state and the
President Jacob Zuma will probably mount a legal challenge to a report by the graft ombudsman that calls for the establishment of a judicial inquiry into allegations that the Gupta family influenced cabinet appointments
Nuclear procurement will save South Africa from a possible 2026 electricity capacity crunch, said Eskom CEO Brian Molefe in a briefing on Thursday. Molefe, who was delivering Eskom’s six-month results for the period to