Tag: Load shedding
Eskom aims to recoup up to 1500MW from electricity demand reduction
Eskom Acting Group Chief Executive, Calib Cassim, says the power utility has launched a national demand side management initiative which could save some 1500MW...
City to issue largest power tender yet – 500 MW to help with load-shedding...
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has announced that the City is this week issuing the largest of its load-shedding protection tenders to date –...
Electricity wheeling could play vital role in City’s electricity future
Electricity wheeling is one way to help address the country’s energy shortages and the City too has been running a pilot project on wheeling...
City sits down with local tourism operators to talk energy plans
Last week, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, Alderman James Vos; Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Councillor Beverley van Reenen; and Cape...
The “chickens” have come home to roost?
Benoît Le Roy, CEO and co-founder of the South African Water Chamber explains…
THE chickens have come home to roost as persisting load shedding causes...
Eskom targets five key priorities to ease load shedding
Eskom board member, Mteto Nyati, says the power utility and its board is working intently on five key priorities to improve the performance of...
Institution looking to innovate after pressure from economy, COVID
The Editor speaks to the CEO of the SA Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE), Leanetse Matutoane.
THE twin blows of a depressed economy intertwined with...
SA will resolve energy challenges, says President Ramaphosa
South Africa will resolve its electricity challenges, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“Much as we are still dealing with the challenges of load shedding with Eskom,...
From the “Bee in my Bonnet” column – The gas man cometh
Some good news at last?
THE excellent article by Susan Comrie – Sasol, CEF to open “gas bridge” to Mozambique, published on 20 July 2022...
LPG strategy – light on the details
By Monde Tyusha CEO of Sunrise Energy, an LPG import facility in Saldanha Bay operating under exclusive concession from the Transnet National Ports Authority.
THE...
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