Browsing: Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Carbon capture makes coal dearer every year, while solar and batteries get cheaper with every passing quarter.

Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.

A R7.15-million CSIR study into “clean coal” is done, but the test plant is unbuilt, underfunded and years from results.

The city and the energy department say the arrears are cleared and Eskom has dropped its threat to cut supply.

Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has outlined a major overhaul to South Africa’s electricity pricing policy.

There is a difference between acknowledging complexity and weaponising it to resist change, writes Busi Mavuso.

The transmission operator will own the assets outright, reversing a plan approved by the energy minister in December.

A quartet of newly approved projects is chasing spare grid capacity, not South Africa’s best solar resources.

Load shedding ended in 2025 – now the power cuts nobody talks about are ending, too.

The fight over who owns South Africa’s transmission grid has burst spectacularly into the open.