Power utility Eskom signed a US250m (R1,9 billion) loan on Monday that will finance the building of SA’s largest solar energy and wind power generation projects. Signing the guarantee, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said SA had a “huge comparative advantage”
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To most of us, the Internet is pretty close to magic. Type in a search, click a link, and the info just arrives on our screens. There isn’t any visible evidence that actual work is needed to make this happen; no grinding gears or roaring burners, and there
Independent data centre operator Teraco is expanding its facilities in Johannesburg and Cape Town and building a new centre in Durban as demand in the SA market explodes. But it’s having to focus enormous energy on increasing power efficiencies
Craig Wilson and Duncan McLeod are in the studio this week for a packed episode of TalkCentral, TechCentral’s business technology podcast. In episode 39, we look at Eskom’s load-shedding schedule, the appointment
City Power Johannesburg has posted load-shedding schedules on its website, but said this did not mean it would happen, the Citizen reported on Thursday. “On an annual basis we update our load-shedding schedules
The public are advised not to be alarmed at steam issuing from the Koeberg nuclear power station during the next few days, a spokesman said. “Given the events in Japan, we want to assure the public that perfectly clean steam
Eskom has spent more than R75,5bn on the capital investment programme since 2005, and delivered 5 031MW of new electricity generating capacity into the system, transport minister Sbu Ndebele said
Telecommunications company MTN SA is building a new data centre in Centurion, north of Johannesburg, that can operate entirely independently of SA’s electricity grid. The site will be able to function indefinitely without
The demand for electricity was set to increase by about 2% in 2011 as the country’s economy recovered, Eskom CEO Brian Dames said on Thursday. “Therefore, we are targeting every day
A short distance off the highway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, not far from the Samrand offramp north of Midrand, is a large but otherwise nondescript building. To the casual observer