Karpowership said its appeal to overturn an environmental ruling has failed in another blow to South Africa’s attempts to resolve its power crisis.
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The presidency said government has made significant progress in structural reforms, including the successful auctioning off of broadband spectrum.
Progress in bringing generation capacity online, coupled with low weekend demand, means Eskom will no longer implement load shedding on Sunday.
Eskom will implement load shedding at stage 2 on both Saturday and Sunday between 4pm and midnight as it continues to struggle to cope with demand.
Eskom has welcomed the sentencing of three cable thieves, who stole at least 564kg of its aluminium overhead conductor cable.
Eskom will implement stage-4 load shedding on Thursday as it struggles with increased demand due to colder weather and plant breakdowns.
Eskom will implement load shedding at stage 2 from 4pm on Wednesday and Thursday.
South Africa could be plunged back into load shedding later on Tuesday after only a brief respite from the rolling power cuts that plagued the country through much of July.
Minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele said government is focused on adding as much new generation capacity to the grid as possible, as quickly as possible.
Nedbank Group wants to almost double its lending to green energy projects in South Africa over the next two years.