A court ruling that the government failed to comply with the constitution when it initiated a process to build new atomic power plants has dealt a major blow to President Jacob Zuma’s nuclear ambitions. The Western Cape
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South Africa hasn’t complied with the constitution in seeking bidders for a nuclear energy programme and must cancel any deals that have already been signed, the Western Cape high court ruled. The government must
Public enterprises minister Lynne Brown has declined Eskom’s proposal to pay its former group CEO Brian Molefe a R30m pension payout. In a statement, the minister said the Eskom board’s reasoning
The head of South Africa’s nuclear company has said a request for proposals to build reactors is expected to go out as early as June as five potential suppliers emerge as leading candidates. Companies from South
The renewable energy sector was notified in a short note – sent at 4.25pm on Friday – that the financial close of 37 outstanding independent power projects would not take place on Tuesday, 11 April as planned. No new date has been set and
Just a week after downgrading South Africa’s foreign currency rating to “junk”, S&P Global Ratings has changed its rating outlook on the country’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications operator, Telkom, to “negative”. Its rating has been
Blaming the early closure of some South African coal-fired electricity plants and subsequent job cuts on renewables is “misdirected” because generation from the fuel far outpaces clean-power supply, a former National
Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe on Tuesday confirmed that the power utility will expedite plans to close four power stations in order to accommodate renewable independent power producers. The stations are the 3GW Kriel, 1GW Komati, 2GW
South Africa should consider splitting state power company Eskom into transmission and generation units to prevent it from undermining the country’s independent power producer program, the ruling ANC said. While the government has championed
Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe was sworn in as a member of parliament for the ANC on Thursday morning. He was controversially nominated to take up an MP seat by the ANC in the North West, prompting