No proposal has reached the regulator on making midday power cheaper to soak up surplus solar in South Africa.
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The unbundling now has advisers, a timetable and, at last, agreement between Eskom and business.
GridCars founder Winstone Jordaan on what it takes to build a national EV charging network in South Africa, and what still stands in the way.
Teraco used 399GWh of electricity in 2025, three times its 2021 figure, with a new solar facility now due to come online next year.
Eskom’s profit more than doubled to R30.3-billion, but electricity sales fell 6.2% and municipal arrears passed R111-billion.
Electricity theft and unrecognised municipal revenue together exceed the utility’s entire annual profit.
Eskom has confirmed R36.8-billion of irregular expenditure relating to prior years, restated outside the financial statements.
Eskom and BLSA now say they agree on the independent transmission operator, two months after a public falling-out.
Koeberg unit 1 tripped just before 1am on Thursday. Unit 2 has been down since April. No load shedding is expected.
A 148MW solar plant in Limpopo now supplies a Rio Tinto-owned smelter 600km away in KwaZulu-Natal.