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Renewables drive sustainable development
23rd June 2023 By: Simone Liedtke

Comprehensive energy audits and advanced lithium-ion batteries have enabled renewable energy company Blockpower to ensure a stable and high-quality power supply for The Emerald development, in... 


Third parties to start selling electricity using Cape Town grid 
23rd June 2023 By: Irma Venter

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has announced that 15 commercial electricity suppliers will start wheeling electricity through Cape Town’s grid in July.  The city’s Mayoral Committee has... 


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Associate Principal: Nedbank Energy Finance
Accelerating and scaling Africa’s renewable-energy projects
22nd June 2023

In Africa more than 600 million people lack access to electricity. At the current pace of electrification millions of Africans are still expected to be without electricity in 2030 unless the pace... 


Small businesses are struggling to keep operating during loadshedding
Small businesses need support as they take heavy strain from loadshedding crisis
21st June 2023 By: Schalk Burger

Up to 64% of small businesses in South Africa's townships stop operating when there is loadshedding, about 60% have had to reduce employee numbers to survive and about 7% have permanently shut... 


Trend is toward larger power plant solutions, says Zest WEG
20th June 2023

Whether companies need power to survive loadshedding or to raise their production output, the trend is for these power generating systems to get bigger. According to Bernard Mitton, Business... 


Eskom power lines and substation
Eskom’s new grid queuing rules governed by ‘first ready, first served’ approach
20th June 2023 By: Terence Creamer

State-owned electricity utility Eskom is preparing to issue updated grid queuing rules that will outline how it plans to manage scarce grid connection capacity in a way that avoids “hogging” of... 


Johannesburg skyline
Mining of tax data highlights importance of metros in driving growth and jobs
19th June 2023 By: Terence Creamer

South Africa has started to mine its tax records in a bid to produce highly localised spatial economic data that will offer city and municipal policy makers far greater visibility of the geographic... 


Proof will be in the pudding says Appea
16th June 2023 By: Esmarie Iannucci

The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (Appea) said this week that the test for the government’s newly introduced Mandatory Code of Conduct would be if it could support the... 


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Govt finalises new Gas Code
15th June 2023 By: Esmarie Iannucci

The federal government has completed the design of the Mandatory Gas Code of Conduct (Gas Code), placing emphasis on securing additional domestic supply in the short term, and facilitating... 


Manufacturing confidence still constrained by loadshedding
14th June 2023 By: Schalk Burger

Confidence levels in the manufacturing sector remain near the low levels reached during previous business cycles, as loadshedding weighs on sentiment, financial services firm Absa's Manufacturing... 


Solar panels with Cape Town in background
Cape Town’s draft energy strategy sets goal of adding 650 MW within five years
14th June 2023 By: Terence Creamer

Cape Town’s energy strategy, which has been released for public comment, envisages the addition of 650 MW of new independent generation within five years in line with the city’s stated goal of... 


African energy and minerals re-imagined
14th June 2023

By Bhavtik Vallabhjee, Head: Power & Renewables, Absa CIB With the African minerals and energy sector flourishing with possibility, one can’t help but draw parallels with the late 1880’s when the... 


Atlas Copco’s online solutions enable customers to make the smart connection
14th June 2023

Atlas Copco Power Technique supports its portable range of generators, air compressors, light towers, pumps and hand-held tools with several online solutions that enable customers, with the click... 


GE Vernova’s Gas Power business hosts Aeroderivative Users Conference
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business hosts Aeroderivative Users Conference
12th June 2023

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business hosted a Sub-Saharan Africa Aeroderivative Users Conference in Tanzania with the theme, “Building capacity and supporting energy security with Aeroderivative gas... 


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Vukile reports good results as European portfolio helps offset South African challenges
12th June 2023 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

JSE-listed Vukile Property Fund says it achieved a good set of operating results for the financial year ended March 31, adding that it is in a strong financial position. Vukile has reported a 6.2%... 


Atlas Copco distributor, Brutes Air, delivers reliable standby power solution to new mine customer with QAC 1100 TwinPower™
9th June 2023

The flexibility, reliability and efficiency of the Atlas Copco QAC 1100 TwinPower™, which is essentially two QAC generators housed side-by-side in a 20-foot container, prompted the customer to... 


A group of boilers painted blue in configuration at a nonwoven fabrics manufacturing plant
KZN manufacturer partners firm to protect boilers
9th June 2023

Creating nonwoven fabrics requires using roller cards to process staple fibre, with the rollers first warmed using steam. With boilers operating to create this steam 24 hours a day, boiler... 


HIGH-TECH OFFERING CERTUSS steam generators enable a highly flexible steam supply while saving energy
Partnership with German supplier bearing fruit
9th June 2023 By: Nadine James

Boiler and steam generator supplier Steam Generation Africa’s work and partnership with German industrial equipment supplier CERTUSS has resulted in numerous projects and opportunities considering... 


Top South African fund bets on platinum as power cuts hit miners
8th June 2023 By: Bloomberg

A fund run by one of South Africa’s largest asset managers has altered its approach on platinum, seeing better returns from betting on the physical metal, while offloading shares in companies that... 


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Concor, Tuhf partner to fund two residential developments in Conradie Park
8th June 2023 By: Schalk Burger

Infrastructure and construction services company Concor Construction and commercial property financier Tuhf have established a partnership to fund two, and possibly more, developments in the... 


MTN launches integrated wind and solar hybrid project
8th June 2023 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Telecommunications giant MTN has kicked off the first series of its Net Zero projects in a six-month plan to unlock off-grid, clean and reliable energy alternatives. The first series of projects... 


Jan Fourie
Powering a Sustainable Future: How Businesses and the Environment Benefit from Renewable Energy and PPAs
8th June 2023

By Jan Fourie, Executive Vice President for Scatec in Sub-Saharan Africa South Africa's energy market is currently witnessing a remarkable transformation as it shifts towards renewable energy to... 


Emira CEO Geoff Jennett
Emira grows its net asset value per share, declares final dividend of 30.35c
7th June 2023 By: Schalk Burger

JSE-listed real estate investment trust Emira Property Fund has increased its net asset value a share by 4.2% to R16.97 a share for the nine months ended March 31, and declared a final dividend of... 


Business confidence index falls further in second quarter
7th June 2023 By: Reuters

South Africa's business confidence fell in the second quarter of 2023 to the lowest in three years, dragged down by persistent power outages, rising interest rates and cost pressures weighing on... 


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Third parties to start selling electricity using Cape Town grid 
7th June 2023 By: Irma Venter

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has announced that 15 commercial electricity suppliers will start wheeling electricity through Cape Town’s grid in July.  The city’s Mayoral Committee has... 


South African companies turn to fixed-wireless connectivity as load shedding strains networks  
2nd June 2023

South African companies are increasingly turning towards fixed-wireless networks as a backup or alternative to fibre and mobile broadband as record levels of load shedding puts telecoms networks... 


ALPHA MOTORS
Alpha Motors, a Bearings International brand, is manufactured by TechTop
Company expands market share
2nd June 2023 By: Simone Liedtke

Industrial products supplier Bearings International is expanding its market share in South Africa’s electric motor industry through its continued commitment to providing reliable, energy efficient... 


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Leasing agreements preferred for hassle free operations
2nd June 2023 By: Nadine Ramdass

Maintenance lease agreements offered by industrial equipment supplier Shumani enable customers to rent equipment on a long-term basis, with full maintenance programmes as a cost-effective option,... 


Telecoms body concerned about prospect of worsening loadshedding in colder months
2nd June 2023 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) is calling for urgent regulatory and government action on the loadshedding crisis in South Africa, fearing that the impact on an already hard-hit... 


Image of a dam wall
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Ethiopia – update
2nd June 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

EEPCo has reported that the project is about 90% complete. 


Fairvest CEO Darren Wilder
Fairvest continues pivot to retail; sharpens focus on vacancies and efficiencies
31st May 2023 By: Schalk Burger

JSE-listed real estate investment trust Fairvest continues to move towards becoming a retail-focused fund by recycling out noncore assets, with disposals expected to continue. Fairvest sold four... 


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Goldplat investing in generators for its South African operation
31st May 2023 By: Darren Parker

Aim-listed mining services group Goldplat has noted impact of ongoing electricity shortages in South Africa on its local operations, confirming to shareholders in a May 31 statement that it had... 


Mark Freeman
Renewable energy early adopters – we’ve got some good news
31st May 2023

By Mark Freeman. Offer Manager Digital Buildings, Anglophone Africa and Nishandra Baijnath, Systems Architect, Power Systems, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric As the country struggles to... 


Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan
'Impossible and vague': Gordhan moves to appeal order to curb loadshedding impact on hospitals
31st May 2023 By: News24Wire

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday applied for leave to appeal to the order issued earlier in May that all hospitals, clinics, schools and police stations should be spared... 


Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni
Ramokgopa in conversation with Karpowership on five- to ten-year contracts
30th May 2023 By: Terence Creamer

South Africa’s Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is having discussions with Karpowership about the potential for introducing the floating gas-to-power plants under a power purchase... 


Competition law block exemptions published for the South African energy sector
30th May 2023

By Leana Engelbrecht, Competition Law, international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills On Wednesday, 24 May 2023, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition (MTIC) published the Energy Users... 


Businesses are under pressure to survive the South African economy strained by continuous blackouts
30th May 2023

By Gareth Cremen, Partner at Cox Yeats Electricity supply shortages continue to depreciate South Africa’s economic growth, as it has for several years. Since 2007 load-shedding has intensified... 


Atlas Copco adds mobile electric compressors to its diesel range, enabling customers to choose what’s best for them
30th May 2023

The challenges presented by inconsistent power supply, exacerbated by the everyday reality of rising fuel and energy costs, have to be navigated by businesses across all sectors of the South... 


Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan
76 hospitals already exempt from loadshedding, says Gordhan
30th May 2023 By: Darren Parker

The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has already initiated efforts, in collaboration with the Department of Health and State-owned utility Eskom, to identify 213 hospitals for exclusion from... 


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Property owners view rapid solar roll-out as key to navigating loadshedding crisis
26th May 2023 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

As the energy crisis in the country incrementally worsens, the ramifications are considerable for property owners, who are having to resort to various options to limit the impact of prolonged... 


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Property owners view rapid solar roll-out as key to navigating loadshedding crisis
26th May 2023 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

As the energy crisis in the country incrementally worsens, the ramifications are considerable for property owners, who are having to resort to various options to limit the impact of prolonged... 


Food maker RFG installs solar
25th May 2023 By: Bloomberg

South African food producer RFG Holdings will complete solar installations at seven of its production facilities over the next 18 month, accelerating its renewable energy program as the State-owned... 


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Delba’s commitment to excellence with its power generation division
25th May 2023

Delba, a global leader in engineering, repair and maintenance services, has a strong reputation for delivering high-quality solutions on rotating equipment across various industries. One of its... 


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