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Investors are increasingly reluctant to lend to coal companies as power plants switch to more environmentally friendly fuel.
Government’s decisions about energy needs are potentially leading SA down a path of excess.
Despite reassurances by the government, several important targets are unlikely to be met.
UK firms are paying a heavy price for shunning renewables. They have only themselves to blame.
Reducing the energy bill helps lower your contribution to climate change.
The department of energy is pushing ahead with procuring renewable energy projects with a value totalling about R70-billion.
Energy Minister Dipuo Peters is sticking to her guns on electricity policy.
Ecofriendly products and methods are now regarded as essential, not mere indulgences.
The new carbon tax will drive the growing renewable energy sector and change South Africa’s energy mix.
Replacing fuels with more sustainable options remains a key focus for IDC business unit
South Africa’s energy mix is due to be shaken up as the capacity allocated to independent power producers has now nearly doubled.
Rwanda plans to almost double its electricity generating capacity under a multimillion-euro peat power plant deal it signed with a Turkish company.
Economic growth, social equity, and a healthier environment are dependent on access to sustainable, clean and affordable energy.
Gas-fired power stations have many advantages and there is an abundance of domestic supply, writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 12 December 2011
Paper group Sappi says the ongoing restructuring within its South African operations might include retrenchments at some of its production plants.
Management at Lonmin’s Western Refinery have admitted that they gave confidential information about employees to private investigators.
South Africa’s energy policy should not only consider those with money and status, writes <b>Jocelyn Newmarch</b>.
Cabinet approved on Thursday the policy-adjusted integrated resource plan for electricity 2010 (IRP2010) for promulgation by the energy department.
In the face of falling oil supplies and rising prices PertoSA’s planned oil refinery will run into trouble.
A lawyer says Eskom and the Department of Energy will not let go of its hold on electricity production, even if consumers suffer.
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/ 11 September 2009
Mini hydro plants could be the answer to a lack of power in rural Africa, industry officials say.
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/ 5 September 2009
Lynley Donnelly speaks to chief executive Jacob Maroga about the state of our energy.
Key sectors of the country’s economy, including mining, petroleum and chemicals, are bracing themselves for industrial action.
PetroSA executives were paid to take the ‘risk’ of promotion, writes Yolandi Groenewald.
Newly appointed Energy Minister Dipuo Peters on Wednesday outlined her short- to medium-term priorities for the sector.
South African power utility Eskom said on Wednesday the country would need to invest up to R110-billion in coal mining by 2020.
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/ 13 January 2009
The DA’s new policy statement on energy and the environment, released on Tuesday, calls for a new ministry to be created.
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/ 24 September 2008
A final decision on whether South Africa will extend its nuclear power capacity is expected within the month, if not sooner.
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/ 2 September 2008
The recent rating downgrade of power utility Eskom by Moody’s is a concern, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Tuesday.
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/ 1 September 2008
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is set to jet into SA this week to sign a bi-lateral energy agreement with the government that involves PetroSA.
We do have the policies, reports Kevin Davie, but there doesn’t seem to be an implementation plan.