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Terence Creamer is the Editor of Engineering News and a Deputy Editor for Mining Weekly. He also has editorial responsibility for Polity.org.za and Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa.
Fast-growing ENGIE South Africa will consider grid investments under right conditions
Global independent power company ENGIE, which is prioritising the South African electricity market for significant organic and acquisitive growth, is also open to participating in grid investments...
Eskom to roll-out ‘load limiting’ to more Gauteng areas following Fourways pilot
Eskom is aiming to expand the coverage of its so-called ‘load limiting project’ – where households equipped with smart meters continue to receive limited power supply during periods of Stage 1 to 4...
Eskom backs Necom-level consultation on use of electricity tokens to upscale virtual wheeling
Eskom Distribution MD Monde Bala has signalled the utility’s willingness to consider the integration of an Electricity Credit Token (ECT) financial instrument to accelerate the implementation of a...
Eskom’s new curtailment addendum unlocks 3 470 MW of grid for wind in Western and Eastern Cape
Eskom has taken a major step in unlocking much-needed grid capacity for wind projects in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces by publishing the highly-anticipated curtailment addendum to its...
SA’s draft plan signals renewables investments retreat as the rest of the world powers ahead
While South Africa’s latest draft electricity plan is signalling a pullback in renewables investments for the period to 2030 relative to the prevailing policy, the rest of the world is powering...
Preferred bidder selected to build, operate Richards Bay LNG terminal
South Africa’s State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has announced that it has selected a public-private consortium as the preferred bidder to develop and operate a liquefied natural...
Ramokgopa seeks to unlock private finance for 6 000 km of new grid in coming three years
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the current plan for rolling out grid infrastructure, particularly in the coming three years, is insufficient to end loadshedding and should, thus,...
Transmission grid constraints cast shadow over South Africa’s seventh renewables bid window
South Africa’s grid constraints are continuing to cast a shadow over the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), the seventh bidding round for which was...
Energy Vault enters licensing deal for gravity storage solution with SADC-focused consortium
Grid-scale energy storage solutions company Energy Vault has signed a licensing and royalty agreement with a South African consortium, established with the aim of deploying the NYSE-listed...
Grid constraint likely to translate to a renewables price premium, Magoro warns
Independent Power Producer (IPP) Office head Bernard Magoro has signalled that the projects bid during the current seventh renewables procurement bid window could carry a price premium, as bidders...
Africa’s flatlining electricity trajectory requires urgent intervention – IEA
A new International Energy Agency (IEA) report on electricity highlights that per person electricity demand across Africa has been stagnant for three decades, making the continent a worrying...
Sasol, Topsoe appoint CEO to lead new sustainable aviation fuels JV
Sasol and Topsoe have appointed Shell’s Jan Toschka as CEO of their recently established sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) JV. Toschka is described as a seasoned leader in the aviation fuels...
Marokane to officially report for duty as Eskom CEO on March 1
Eskom has announced that Dan Marokane – who was named group CEO on December 8, almost a full year after André de Ruyter formally resigned – will assume office on March 1, 2024. Previously, Eskom...
Pioneering 195 MW solar plant to sell clean electricity to multiple customers across the country
South African independent power producer the SOLA Group has started construction on a pioneering 195 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in the Free State, which will wheel and sell clean electricity...
Red Rocket confirms initial 500 MW of interest in 2 000 MW virtual wheeling renewables scheme
Independent power producer (IPP) Red Rocket reports that it has signed up customers for 500 MW of the 2 000 MW of capacity it aims to deploy over the coming three years as part of an innovative...
Tender out for Durban terminal berths expansion
The Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has issued a tender for the reconstruction, deepening and lengthening of three berths at the Pier 2 North Quay of the currently congested Durban...
Sasol’s Mabelane to head board of Eskom’s unbundled grid company
The inaugural board of directors of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA), which was announced by the Eskom board on Tuesday, will be chaired by Priscillah Mabelane, who is also...
1 000 MW gas-to-power cap placed on Richards Bay for first gas procurement round
While ‘location agnostic’, South Africa’s inaugural 2 000 MW gas-to-power (GtP) procurement round is limiting the development of facilities in the City of uMhlathuze, where KwaZulu-Natal’s...
Work under way to identify next battery sites amid bidding at eight North West substations
Independent Power Producer Office head Bernard Magoro reports that work is under way to identify substation sites for the upcoming third Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Producer...
Grid constraints cast shadow over South Africa’s seventh renewables bid window
South Africa’s grid constraints are continuing to cast a shadow over the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), the seventh bidding round for which was...
Fast-growing ENGIE South Africa will consider grid investments under right conditions
Global independent power company ENGIE, which is prioritising the South African electricity market for significant organic and acquisitive growth, is also open to participating in grid investments...
Busy week for DMRE as it hosts IPP bidders conferences and IRP workshop
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) and the Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) have a busy week ahead, with three virtual bidders conferences to be hosted over Wednesday and...
World powers ahead with renewables as South Africa’s draft plan signals pullback
While South Africa’s latest draft electricity plan is signalling a pullback in renewables investments for the period to 2030 relative to the prevailing policy, the rest of the world is powering...
Preferred bidder selected to build and operate Richards Bay LNG terminal
South Africa’s State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has announced that it has selected a public-private consortium as the preferred bidder to develop and operate a liquefied natural...
No plan yet for public hearings into gas-heavy draft IRP 2023
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has belatedly released the background technical information that has been used to inform the assumptions included in the draft Integrated...
Sasol’s Mabelane to head board at Eskom’s unbundled grid company, NTCSA
The inaugural board of directors of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA), which was announced by the Eskom board on Tuesday, will be chaired by Priscillah Mabelane, who is also...
Ramokgopa seeks to unlock private finance for 6 000 km of new grid in coming three years
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the current plan for rolling out grid infrastructure, particularly in the coming three years, is insufficient to end loadshedding and should, thus,...
Busa warns that lack of detail in IRP 2023 makes it impossible to assess plan’s credibility
Business Unity South Africa (Busa) will approach the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to secure the technoeconomic information that has been used to inform the assumptions...
Four utility-scale battery projects worth R10bn selected following inaugural public tender
The South African government has selected preferred bidders for the development of four utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the Northern Cape, with a combined investment...
Finding immediate steel alternatives a concern as AMSA prepares to wind down longs unit
ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has indicated that it will enter discussions with buyers of its noncommodity long-steel products in an effort to limit the disruption that is set to arise because...
Graphics confirm how ‘devastatingly bad’ loadshedding has been in 2023
South Africans are already painfully aware that 2023 has been a devastating year for power disruptions, with the latest bout of Stage 6 loadshedding having provided yet another traumatic reminder...
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