The 720 watt unit can deliver up to four hours of battery life based on a 150W consumption, covering a TV, lamp, WiFi router and laptop.
After more than 10 years of meddling and the countless executive game of musical chairs, please leave political actors out of Eskom problem-solving. This is a problem to be solved by Andre de Ruyter and the unions and the ‘rogue’ employees working outside the established channels
The utility’s employees went on an unprotected strike but years of poor decisions wrecked the energy producer
The Africa Energy Outlook 2022 report charts how the continent can get electricity to everyone by 2030.
EFF tries to disrupt president’s speech to Parliament by bringing up deluge of points of order
The Covid-19 state of disaster response proved how quickly a government can act when it needs to
South Africa must deal with the economic sabotage that is keeping the country in the dark
Load-shedding will be in place from 5pm on Monday to 5am on Wednesday
Persistently high joblessness, the budget notes, has emerged as a key weakness in economic performance
But Greenpeace Africa says the president must let go of ‘gas fantasies’
Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer says the utility will continue with planned maintenance, even at the risk of load-shedding
When one state of disaster ends, we’ll enter the other, familiar one, where service failure is the endemic pandemic.
Corporates are already wheeling electricity and planning alternative power plants, and many households are using a mixture of energy sources
Eskom appeals to the public to help the utility to avoid more power outages by reducing electricity usage
The beleaguered power utility has managed to recover 2000 megawatts in partial load losses from when it implemented stage four load-shedding earlier in the week
Households are reeling after the fuel price hike, as electricity is set to go up by 15.06% in 2022
Earlier this week, the ailing utility’s chief operating officer assured the public it would try to avoid load-shedding as voters head to the polls on Monday
Stage-four outages will continue until Friday after the loss of two units during the night, and three in total at Medupi, Kusile and Matla power plants tripping
The Ekurhuleni mayor’s family home and the Katlehong section in which it is situated are spared the debilitating five-hour blackouts from powerless Eskom
Chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said the ailing state power utility’s staff would be on standby as South Africans cast their votes on 1 November
The finance minister says the government must build a conducive environment for investment into South Africa
At the ANC’s manifesto launch, Cyril Ramaphosa promised to reduce unemployment, increase social security, and stamp out corruption in the party
The EFF has made bold promises to root out corruption in ailing municipalities and redistribute land to the poor ahead of this year’s local government elections.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has questioned why Nersa has not immediately provided its reasons for issuing the controversial generation licences
Eskom price hike is ‘unsustainable’
Environmental groups have warned that a green light from the national energy regulator for a new nuclear power plant will be challenged in court
Africa’s particular logistical challenges require inventive solutions for keeping vaccines cold while not relying on the electricity grid
The project will extend operating life of South Africa’s only nuclear power plant by another 20 years
Fed-up residents and businesses are turning to the courts to get their local councils to take action on power outages, sewage overflows, unrepaired roads and other failures to deliver services
Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, says wealthy countries have a ‘moral responsibility’ to enable a just transition
Department of forestry, fisheries and environment refuses to grant environmental authorisation for gas-to-power projects
‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’