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KITE 2025 - supporting industrial growth in manufacturing

KITE 2025 - supporting industrial growth in manufacturingKwaZulu-Natal Industrial Technology Exhibition 2025

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Ramaphosa: South Africa signals recovery and investment drive

Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond AwardsESG Africa Conference

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Sustainable resource extraction is a non-negotiable

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AfDB awards SA $1m grant to boost green jobs

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Engie completes Africa's biggest wind farmAmerica Hernandez

Source: African Development Bank Group.

$474.6m funding for SA's energy and infrastructure overhaul

New fuel price increases take effect today, 2 July

New fuel price increases take effect today, 2 July

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Promethium’s Olivia Tuchten named PD Forum co-vice chair

Source: GCIS.

Ramaphosa: South Africa signals recovery and investment drive

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Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

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Green energy boom and its impact on jobs in SA

22 Nov 2023

Inaugural Sanedi annual energy conference. Source: Supplied

South Africa’s collaborative approach to energy transition

22 Nov 2023

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Income Tax Act amendments - the silver lining to load shedding?

Nirvasha Singh and Sakiwe Canca 22 Nov 2023

Avhapfani Tshifularo, executive director of Sapia

Load shedding crisis impacts SA petroleum industry

20 Nov 2023

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Santam power surge insurance claims reduce by 80% thanks to consumers

17 Nov 2023

Egbert Faibille Jr delivered a public lecture on Ghana's energy sector at the University of Ghana 75-year anniversary in January. Source: x.com

Ghana ponders sliding scale oil royalties to stimulate investment

Maxwell Akalaara Adombila 16 Nov 2023

Stephen Westwell steps in as Sasol chairman following Sipho Nkosi resignation

Stephen Westwell steps in as Sasol chairman following Sipho Nkosi resignation

13 Nov 2023

Eskom's Hex battery energy storage system is the biggest in Africa. Source: Eskom

Eskom launches Africa's largest battery storage system

Lindsey Schutters 12 Nov 2023

Tourists are returning to South Africa - but the sector will need to go green to deal with the country's electricity crisis

Tourists are returning to South Africa - but the sector will need to go green to deal with the country's electricity crisis

Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, Irma Booyens and Kristy Langerman 10 Nov 2023

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Faith communities oppose SA modular nuclear power plan

9 Nov 2023

The liberalisation of the energy sector and climate change

The liberalisation of the energy sector and climate change

Michael Jackson, Cox Yeats 9 Nov 2023

A view of a gas plant seen from the desert road of Suez outside Cairo. Source: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Israel conflict harms Egypt LNG export outlook

Marwa Rashad and Sarah El Safty 8 Nov 2023

Gwede Mantashe speaks at Africa Energy Week. Source: Lindsey Schutters

South Africa's fight against energy poverty is getting dirty

Lindsey Schutters 6 Nov 2023

South African Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramakgopa briefs members of the media after his visit to assess progress on bringing back online faulty units and boosting power generation at the Kusile Power Station, in Delmas. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

SA to plug power gap with 3GW of gas projects and Koeberg extension

Nelson Banya 5 Nov 2023

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#MTBPS: South Africa's fiscal crisis: Rising debt and urgent reforms unveiled

Katja Hamilton 1 Nov 2023

A man walks beneath electricity pylons during frequent power outages from South African utility Eskom, caused by its ageing coal-fired plants, in Orlando, Soweto. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

IPP projects may miss extended funding deadline

Promit Mukherje 1 Nov 2023

Government to support energy transition in automotive sector

Government to support energy transition in automotive sector

1 Nov 2023

Sun rises behind the cooling towers of Kendal Power Station as the Eskom's ageing coal-fired plants cause frequent power outages, near Witbank. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Eskom reports R24bn net loss in 2022/23 fiscal

Anait Miridzhanian 31 Oct 2023

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Petrol and diesel prices decrease on Wednesday

30 Oct 2023

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a press conference on the day of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels. Source: Reuters/Johanna Geron

Germany is willing to spend on Nigeria energy

Felix Onuah and Andreas Rinke 29 Oct 2023

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for the EU-Africa summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium in 2022. Source: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Pool via Reuters

Germany knocks on Africa's energy door

Andreas Rinke, Sarah Marsh, Thomas Escritt and MacDonald Dzirutwe 27 Oct 2023

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Embedding technology into the grid could secure energy future

Tobie van Schalkwyk 27 Oct 2023

Collaboration will ensure smooth ride into clean mobility future

Collaboration will ensure smooth ride into clean mobility future

26 Oct 2023

World Bank approves $1bn loan to help SA tackle power crisis

World Bank approves $1bn loan to help SA tackle power crisis

Anait Miridzhanian 25 Oct 2023

Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa speaking at Africa Energy Week.

Ramokgopa: 'South Africa is beginning to turn the energy crisis corner'

23 Oct 2023

Kgosientsho Ramokgopa visiting Kusile in September. Source: x.com

Eskom announces that load shedding remains suspended

22 Oct 2023

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#AEW2023: Nuclear could solve Africa's energy poverty

20 Oct 2023

Cabinet approves green hydrogen commercialisation plan

Cabinet approves green hydrogen commercialisation plan

19 Oct 2023

Karpowership Mehmet Bey. Source: Karpowership.com

Karpowership cuts Guinea-Bissau supply for unpaid bills

Alberto Dabo 18 Oct 2023

#AEW2023: OPEC says energy-starved Africa needs fairer climate treatment

#AEW2023: OPEC says energy-starved Africa needs fairer climate treatment

Wendell Roelf 17 Oct 2023

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