Eskom has launched a tender for the second phase of a project to make land around its power stations available for the construction of private renewable energy projects.
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Senior members of the ANC have blamed a range of factors outside their control for South Africa’s electricity crisis.
High hopes that government will soon lay out plans to take on a majority of Eskom’s debt have lifted the company’s bonds.
Eskom is examining how the suspension of a pact that enables it to import nuclear fuel components from the US.
Eskom is again looking for a chief executive. But running the utility surely ranks as the worst job in the global energy industry.
For many years, critical maintenance was deferred and our power stations were run too hard to keep the lights on. We are now paying the price for these miscalculations.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appealed to Eskom to suspend its biggest electricity price increase in more than a decade.
The rand weakened early on Monday, as power utility Eskom extended scheduled electricity cuts.
Eskom will impose load shedding on a continuous basis for at least the next two years, board chairman Mpho Makwanan has warned.
CEO André De Ruyter also reaffirmed that power cuts would continue for two more years at least.