Opposition parties’ fortunes will be boosted on election day if they offer credible and effective alternatives to load shedding.
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The draft Integrated Resource Plan contains huge errors in costing the different future energy scenarios.
Investing in a large and expensive nuclear projects is simply not worth it for nations in East Africa.
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has declared that the worst of the load shedding crisis is over. Is he right?
Ending power cuts completely will probably take another five years if the infusion of more solar and wind capacity proceeds as currently planned.
There’s a growing fear that the national electricity grid could, at some point, collapse entirely.
The result of Eskom’s woes is that South Africans are increasingly being forced to explore alternative sources of electricity.
The mishandling of the Koeberg life extension project raises serious questions about the capacity of South Africa’s nuclear sector.
A revised Integrated Resource Plan is needed, especially in view of the rapid developments in energy-generating technologies. By Hartmut Winkler.
The decreasing performance of the existing Eskom plants is evident in the steady decline of the energy availability factor. On average, 35% of Eskom’s power plants are standing idle at any particular time.