Cape Town will pay residential households for excess power that they generate from their solar installations.
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Eskom has returned five generating units to service, offering South Africa a break from severe power cuts.
Government is wrong to claim it is reducing load shedding; any wins so far are due to private investment, experts have said.
Escalated blackouts should taper off by mid-week as affected units are brought back online.
Eskom escalated load shedding to stage 4 overnight, just hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa promised the worst of the power cuts were over.
About two decades of power cuts, exacerbated by an adherence to hidebound ideology, have deindustrialised what was once a promising economy.
Eskom is rolling out its load limiting project, aimed at optimising electricity consumption, to more suburbs in Johannesburg.
Mozambique plans to end half a century of hydropower supply to Eskom, raising risks for South Africa’s economy.
The financial stability of municipalities hinges in large part on the revenue they generate from selling electricity.
A government monopoly in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity is highly inefficient.