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Transforming South Africa’s power grid, virtually
As South Africans invest billions in rooftop solar and batteries, Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) offer a way to connect these distributed energy resources into a single, flexible…
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa: Electricity and Energy
SCORE: B+ A remarkable milestone under Ramokgopa’s leadership is an impressive and sustained electricity supply record, with over 196 consecutive days without loadshedding for…
Our ailing power grids need urgent upgrading to accommodate renewable energy
The recent outage in Spain and Portugal shows we must modernise how we transport power, supported by AI and automation
Minister of electricity’s controversial coal plans
Ramokgopa’s intention of keeping ageing, expensive coal-fired power stations going flies in the face of policy