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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.

Johannesburg’s R5.3-billion debt threatens its power supply, but the even bigger fight is over structural electricity reform.

Eskom Green is targeting up to 32GW by 2040, with the board insisting it will partner private developers, not compete with them.

Eskom’s generation recovery is working, but unbundling has stalled and municipal debt signals deeper trouble.

The recovery is holding, but Eskom’s own modelling warns of a possible return to blackouts by decade’s end.

South Africa will push ahead with breaking up Eskom and creating a standalone company to run the transmission grid.

South Africa is endowed with minerals needed by the tech industry, but they are not being exploited to their full potential.

Electricity market liberalisation, new trading rules and grid reform will define renewable energy progress in 2026.