Karpowership is expanding its generation capacity by 50% to tap global demand even as it struggles to get projects going in potentially its biggest market.
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South Africa will remain on stage-4 load shedding for now as Eskom works to restore more generating units to the grid.
The latest bout of load shedding could end by Friday, but Eskom isn’t making any promises. Meanwhile, RMB CEO James Formby wants rules changed to promote investment in renewables.
Eskom suddenly escalated load shedding to stage 4 on Tuesday morning after the state-owned electricity utility lost more generating units from its fleet.
In an unprecedented development, Eskom has said it will implement load shedding on Easter Sunday, when demand from electricity users is low.
Emergency evacuation sirens, meant to warn Cape Town residents of a problem at the Koeberg power station, sounded on Thursday – but this was a false alarm.
Eskom may continue with rotational power cuts after the Easter long weekend.
At first it had planned to cut the power at night only. Now Eskom has said it will implement continuous load shedding until 5am on Friday.
The devastating floods that hit KwaZulu-Natal on Monday have knocked out more than a thousand mobile towers operated by Vodacom, MTN and Telkom.
Eskom has published a request for proposals to allow private producers to use land around its coal-fired power stations to build solar farms.