South Africans could be saved from load shedding this winter, if acting Eskom CEO Brian Molefe gets his way. Speaking at the launch of the Transnet Development Hub on Friday, Molefe said planned maintenance was mostly completed and so the utility
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“This is the way the world ends,” writes TS Eliot in The Hollow Men, his masterful poem about death and dying. I’m sitting in the load shedding-induced silence, thinking about this remarkable poem
In a heated energy budget session, the Democratic Alliance gave energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson a roasting and continuously disrupted her during her budget speech in the national
It’s been 50 years since Bill Venter, then a 33-year-old telecommunications engineer, founded Allied Electric, the company that would go on to become the Altron group. Alongside publication of its results for the year ended February 2015, Altron
A project by retailer Ackermans to save electricity and reduce costs landed it a hot prize at the African Utility Week in Cape Town on Wednesday. The retailer was awarded the energy and water efficiency project of the year for its
Minister of public enterprises Lynne Brown ruled out the privatisation of basic services — such as the provision of electricity and water — and said load shedding will continue for three more years. Until the “end state” of Eskom is clarified
Eskom’s “big data” scientists are changing the way its decision makers operate, with mechanisms starting to predict when and where technical faults occur, delegates at the African Utility Week in Cape Town heard on Thursday. Speaking about the
Africa needs almost R5,5 trillion ($450bn) of investment in the energy sector to reduce power outages by half and achieve energy excess in urban areas, former acting Eskom CEO Zethembe
The chances of load shedding on Tuesday are medium for the day and high for the evening, Eskom said in a tweet on Tuesday. On Monday Eskom implemented stage one load shedding just after 4pm without warning, only notifying the media and public
Eskom service provider T-Systems has announced a temporary extension of its contract with the electricity parastatal. T-Systems is a technology solutions provider and has been at the centre of controversy where media reports have indicated