The state must take control of energy supply to increase capacity with funding from the Public Investment Corporation and the South African Reserve Bank rather than relying on the private sector
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Technology is improving rapidly, meaning domestic solar systems could be the solution to South Africa’s energy crisis
After 14 years of blackouts, the president has promised to expedite load-shedding’s finale
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Transnet’s former chief executive Siyabonga Gama will return to court in August
However as generation capacity shortages persist over the next few weeks, load shedding will continue to be implemented at various stages
The suspects are two men who worked for Swiss engineering firm ABB and allegedly ensured lucrative deals were handed to a company in which former Eskom chief executive Matshela Koko’s stepdaughter held a stake
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the government will shorthly announce actions ‘to achieve much faster progress in tackling load-shedding’
The completion of maintenance to a unit at the nuclear plant will add 920 megawatts to the grid
After more than a decade of electricity shortages, South Africans are right to feel frustrated and angry.
Eskom has sunk on Ramaphosa’s watch. The government needs to get its focus right and fix it
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They have not the lights on and must make way for those who can turn the utility around
The commission said the goals of the National Development Plan, which it is charged with advancing, ‘cannot be achieved without energy security’
Shutting down Eskom’s coal plants and shifting to cleaner technologies will bring ‘cleaner air’ to the polluted Mpumalanga Highveld, says the utility’s environmental manager
Last week, the country was plunged into stage six load-shedding when Eskom workers went on strike. A wage settlement was reached on Tuesday, but Eskom warned that it will take time to recover
The power utility warned that the system would take some time to recover because maintenance work had been postponed because of the unprotected strike
Sources at a meeting of the national executive committee said a call was made to shift the power utility to Gwede Mantashe’s ministry of minerals and resources
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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
Number 1 should take some tips from Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta and finally clear the cabinet of some deadwood
The utility’s employees went on an unprotected strike but years of poor decisions wrecked the energy producer
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During a webinar on Wednesday, the group chief executive of EOH, Stephen van Coller, called private sector participation in the Zondo commission into state capture ‘disappointing’
This is according to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, who placed the blame for stage six load-shedding on unprotected strike action
The power utility says it experienced unplanned losses of 14 204 megawatts as wage-related protest action intensified
The largest sources of state capture money were Transnet and Eskom, two of South Africa’s most fragile state-owned entities
The province at the polluting heart of energy production has good wind and solar resources and can use the grid as coal-fired power stations are decommissioned
The demonstrations have coincided with stage 2 rotational power cuts which the state-owned utility says will remain in place until Sunday due to the breakdown of four generation units
Load-shedding and electricity prices are projected to double in next five years
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The power utility is owed huge amounts of money by municipalities — and then there’s sabotage to contend with
The utility buys R11-bn of electricity from Eskom which it needs to sell to make revenue and reinvest but instead it loses R2-bn a year due to illegal connections
The province may be in for a heavy stench as the winds blow in from Mpumalanga. The M&G looks back at the events that contributed to this state of affairs
Fugitives Rajesh and Atul Gupta were arrested four months after Interpol issued a Red Notice against them. But they are just the latest.
Small modular nuclear reactors can help South Africa transition to a low-carbon economy
The Mail & Guardian spent time with the residents of Thuthukani, and heard of how a once ‘beautiful’ town had degenerated.