Medupi Power Plant

Pumping limited resources into a project that is predominantly meant to extend dirty coal energy in South Africa is not what local communities and the climate needs.

On 31 July 2020, the Mail & Guardian published an article with the headline “Eskom cancels dodgy R100m tender”. The headline was false and no contract was ever cancelled between…

Before Big Coal, Lephalale was a small town with little water and few jobs. Two power plants have changed it

Technology has the potential to solve many of the country’s social problems such as electricity production and the eradication of pit latrines

The environment department has lost patience with Eskom’s defiance of air pollution regulations

COMMENT If you’re a global mining giant, you want out of coal quick sticks for the simple reason that the major investment funds will no longer put their money into fossil fuels,…

It was never in the public interest to incur a debt of $3.75-billion to build coal-burning Medupi

A Greenpeace report outlines ways Eskom can adopt green technology and save itself financially

The Northern Works sewage plant could generate 4.2MW of power but is operating at 20% capacity

"One of the questions that I hear being asked most often, is: ‘Will I still have a job in this turnaround of Eskom?’," the memo from Hadebe read

The power plants have come in over budget and way behind schedule

​Construction on the issue-ridden Medupi and Kusile power stations, which began in 2007 and 2008, will go ahead

The power utility is facing a myriad of problems, warning it cannot rule out the continued possibility of load-shedding for the coming 6-12 months

​Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan had been forced to give up his plan to import technical assistance for Eskom from Rome

Eskom put its future into just two megaplants, a handful of contractors and a single energy coal which some of our banks will no longer finance.