Electricity Minister: ‘South Africa is making strides in addressing energy crisis’The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity briefed the media on the Energy Action Plan | |
Fuel prices rise on back of higher global oil costs and weaker rand[Lindsey Schutters] Weaker rand and higher oil and transport costs have driven up the price of fuel for March... | |
CoCT launches Cash for Power programme alongside Energy Strategy unveilingCape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis used the opportunity to criticise national government. | |
#MI24: Green hydrogen is not coming to save the PGM industryThe panel at the Bowmans 2024 Mining Indaba Event included (from left) Dr Rebecca Maserumule, director for hydrogen and energy at DSI, Bart by Bart Nieuwoudt, lead legal specialist at Sasol, Stuart Heather-Clark, Africa Power Sector Energy Transition Lead at SLR Consulting, Claire Tucker head of our public law and regulatory practice, Bowmans. | |
Ramokgopa: SA's electricity system is improving, but load shedding continues[Lindsey Schutters] Minister in the Presidency for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, updated the media on the implementation of the Energy Action Plan... | |
Eskom announces appointments to the National Transmission Company of South Africa boardSource: Jonathan Borba/Pexels | |
African Energy Chamber is an outspoken advocate for African oil and gasAEC: 'African nations must reject promises of aid and handouts to abandon their oil and gas as COP28 wraps up' | |
Eskom launches Africa's largest battery storage systemEskom's Hex battery energy storage system is the biggest in Africa. Source: Eskom | |
South Africa advances green hydrogen economy with BMW trial[Lindsey Schutters] Minerals Council of South Africa welcomes the launch of a pilot hydrogen vehicle project between BMW and Anglo American Platinum... | |
#YouthMonth: Invest in your career, never stop learning - Nomalungelo Mbokazi[Sindy Peters] Nomalungelo Mbokazi shares with us a bit about what excites her about her work at bpSA... | |
#EarthGathering: Unlocking SA's energy transition potential amid sector uncertainty[Sindy Peters] While playing catch-up with more advanced economies in renewable energy adoption, investment has been slowed in South Africa by sector uncertainty... | |
Significant intervention needed to ease SA's electricity crisis - CSIR[Sindy Peters] If everything stays exactly the same, the electricity crisis will get significantly worse in 5-10 years' time, says the CSIR's Warrick Pierce... | |
#WomensMonth: Be receptive to learning more all the time - Hitachi Energy's Tshegofatso Monnamme[Sindy Peters] Tshegofatso Monnamme is a tender and quotation specialist for high voltage products at Hitachi... | |
The Eskom crisis: Acknowledging positive change[Howard Feldman] Twelve of us were sitting around a table. It was a strategy session, and it was going well... until we stopped for lunch... | |
Eskom set to expand power lines without environmental authorisation, Ramaphosa saysSource: Pixabay | |
#EnlitAfrica2022: Private sector engagement encouraged as energy transition now inevitable[Sindy Peters] Formerly African Utility Week, Enlit Africa kicked off in Cape Town this week with the just energy transition and the JETP top of the agenda... | |
#BehindtheSelfie with Godfrey Marema, plant manager and MD for South Africa, Eaton[Sindy Peters] We go behind the selfie with Godfrey Marema to find out more about his new role, his favourite trend in the sector right now, and his secret to success... | |
Ramaphosa lifts embedded generation threshold to 100MWImage source: Getty/Gallo | |
#EnergyIndaba: Private investment critical to meet Africa's energy needsFrancesco La Camera, DG, Irena | |
#EnergyIndaba: Radically different approach needed to power Africa[Nicci Botha] If the continent dealt with its access to electricity challenge with the same gusto it is applying to fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, the problem would already be solved... |