Tag: Eskom
Repurposing coal stations – a circular economy energy solution
All over the world, utilities are facing the problem of what to do with obsolete and inefficient power stations. In the context of South...
Eskom reveals an R18.9 billion net loss
The power utility Eskom has released its annual report, and it doesn’t look good as they suffered a great loss resulting from the COVID-19...
Eskom’s Medupi Power Station in Limpopo finally completed after 14 years
Eskom’s R135 billion mammoth Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, Limpopo, has been finally completed, 14 years after the project commenced.
The power utility today said...
100 MW self-gen threshold: Boon for big business, doom for others?
THE recent announcement by President Ramaphosa of the new 100 MW threshold for embedded electricity generation, up from just 1 MW, was welcome news...
Fooling the people some of the time
From the 'A Bee in my Bonnet' column.
ONE of the benefits of the internet and social media, at least to this reader, is that...
Highest electricity price increase of last decade
As South Africans, we've become rather accustomed to the prices of just about everything going up on an annual basis. Electricity is no different.
With...
There’s a right, a wrong and then there’s the truth
YOU know when your heart is really set on something and then someone or something pulls the rug out from under your feet leaving...
Due to plant failure, Eskom extends power cuts to Friday
South Africa’s struggling power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd will cut power supplies nationwide until Friday after more breakdowns at some of its facilities.
The...
Eskom implements stage 2 load shedding, warns of further power cuts
Eskom will implement stage 2 load shedding from 5am on Tuesday morning the 1st of June as a cold front hits the country.
The power...
How a tender ‘error’ swung two Eskom contracts worth R341m to the more expensive...
According to MoneyWeb The losing bidder, Instrument Transformer Technologies, faces liquidation as a result.
One of just two local manufacturers of electrical transformers says it...
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