Africa Energy Indaba 2025: The platform to end load shedding and protect businesses from...
LOAD shedding remains one of the biggest challenges affecting African economies, businesses, and livelihoods.
As energy disruptions continue to hinder growth and productivity, the Africa...
Eskom issues tender for biogas consultant
Though there has been bad news around load shedding starting again last month, a tender launched by Eskom on Friday 31 January might have...
Opinion Piece: Securing the power supply – Grid Management Systems, the backbone of modern...
By Herman Mare, General Manager at ACTOM
Grid management systems are the linchpin of modern Transmission and Distribution (T&D) networks, ensuring their reliable and efficient...
Yet another above-inflation increase on electricity tariff – with the likelihood of more to...
Mr Jacques Moolman, President of the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The 12.74% tariff increase, while substantially less than Eskom's requested 36.15%, is cold...
Scope for private steam turbines to feed grid, says WEG Africa
STEAM turbines represent mission critical equipment for a range of industries from sugar and paper to steel and petrochemicals, but there is now greater...
Balancing power generation technologies could save €65-trillion by 2050 – Wärtsilä’s Crossroads to net...
WÄRTSILÄ’S global power system modelling, published in the Crossroads to net zero report, compares two pathways from the year 2025 to 2050 with the...
The Electricity Expo Africa: Powering Africa’s future with innovation, sustainability, and opportunity
ELECTRICITY Expo Africa, a groundbreaking event set to take place at the Nasrec Expo Centre from 9-11 September 2025, was officially launched at the...
Teraco commences construction on 120MW utility-scale solar power plan
TERACO, a provider of interconnection platforms and vendor-neutral colocation data centres, announced that it has started construction of its 120MW utility-scale solar PV power...
The suspension of loadshedding has surpassed the 250-day mark, resulting in year-on-year diesel savings...
The investment in the Generation Recovery Plan continues to yield consistent results, with loadshedding suspended for 254 consecutive days since 26 March 2024. This...
City seeks High Court review of Nersa’s unlawful electricity tariff-setting decisions
The courts have repeatedly affirmed that Nersa may only approve tariffs based on detailed cost-of-supply studies. In June this year, Nersa’s approval of municipal tariff...
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