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Terence Creamer

Terence Creamer

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.

By Terence Creamer

Energy Regulator approvals mark another step towards NTCSA’s operationalisation

Energy Regulator approvals mark another step towards NTCSA’s operationalisation

18th March 2024

South Africa’s Energy Regulator has taken another set of decisions opening the way for the operationalisation of a separate grid company in South Africa ahead of the far-reaching legislative... 


SAWEA CEO Niveshen Govender

SAWEA wants IRP overhaul as it questions massively diminished role for wind in current draft

18th March 2024

The South African Wind Energy Association’s (SAWEA’s) formal response to the draft Integrated Resource Plan 2023 (IRP 2023) questions both the modelling and assumptions used to determine the vastly... 


Energy Regulator approves 10.13% pipeline tariff hike on Durban-to-Alrode route

Energy Regulator approves 10.13% pipeline tariff hike on Durban-to-Alrode route

15th March 2024

The Energy Regulator has approved a 5.98% increase, from R6.8-billion in 2023/24 to R7.2-billion in 2024/25, in Transnet’s allowable revenue from petroleum pipelines system tariffs. “This... 


AECI CEO Holger Riemensperger

Amid disposals, AECI aligns internationalisation strategy to regions geared for rapid critical minerals growth

15th March 2024

JSE-listed AECI, which is undergoing far-reaching restructuring to re-focus on its core mining and chemicals businesses and reduce debt, reports strong initial interest in the six noncore companies... 


Lineworkers work on a high-voltage powerline

Settling on funding solutions for expedited grid infrastructure set as a JET Investment Plan priority

15th March 2024

Finalising funding solutions for the expedited expansion of South Africa’s electricity transmission grid has been identified as a key priority for the Just Energy Transition (JET) project... 


Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler

Sasol prioritising coal de-stoning investment as it seeks to allay fears over big Secunda output dip

15th March 2024

Energy and chemicals group Sasol has moved to address investor concerns that its yearly production at Secunda will need to fall to only 6.7-million tons for it to meet its goal of reducing the... 


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Not so quiet revolution

15th March 2024

For several years, the roll-out of rooftop solar, batteries and inverters has been referred to as South Africa’s quite revolution. While Eskom struggled to keep the lights on and government battled... 


Industrial Gas Users Association of South Africa executive director Jaco Human

Industrial gas users prepare to make ‘orderly transition’ case at crunch gas-cliff meeting

14th March 2024

The creation of a formal public-private platform to assess solutions to a pending “gas cliff” for industrial consumers in South Africa points to the fact that the issue is finally being taken... 


Wind turbine at sunrise

IPPO confirms May 30 renewables bid deadline as it moves to accommodate grid quotes and curtailment

13th March 2024

The Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) has confirmed that the deadline for submissions under Bid Window Seven (BW7) of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme... 


Port of Richards Bay

Zululand Energy Terminal partners test market appetite for LNG services

12th March 2024

The Vopak Terminal Durban & Transnet Pipelines joint venture selected recently as the preferred bidder for a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Richards Bay has issued an expression... 


Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Eskom mulls integration of Vgbe report recommendations into revised recovery plan but hints at ‘inaccuracies’

11th March 2024

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom’s new CEO, Dan Marokane, will offer a comprehensive outline of a revised generation recovery plan that will seek to integrate recommendations... 


Substation with wind turbines in the background

Curtailment framework in play for current renewables bidding round, Ramokgopa confirms

11th March 2024

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and the Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) have both confirmed that the curtailment framework outlined by Eskom in January is immediately available... 


Business Unity South Africa president Mxolisi Mgojo

Mgojo says collaborative efforts will enable Transnet to report higher volumes than initially forecast

8th March 2024

Business Unity South Africa president Mxolisi Mgojo reports that the collaboration between business and government to turn around the performance of Transnet could result in the struggling... 


Incoming Aveng CEO Scott Cummins

No immediate plan to list Aveng in Australia, but future listing likely amid change in reporting currency to Aussie dollar

8th March 2024

JSE-listed Aveng, which recently relocated is management epicentre to Australia and changed its reporting currency from South African rands to Australian dollars, has no immediate intention of... 


Roads

Dispute over 5 km road could highlight far bigger road-building problem for Gauteng

8th March 2024

A legal dispute over the granting of an environmental authorisation for a 5-km new road, the K148, in southern Gauteng has the potential to highlight serious legal impediments to the development of... 


Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy

Climate Change Response Fund to channel resources to adaptation, early-warning systems – Creecy

8th March 2024

Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy reports that the Climate Change Response Fund announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) has... 


NO CARBON CRUNCH: The Presidency has expressed confidence that South Africa will meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets even if it keeps some coal-fired plants, such as the one pictured here, open beyond their current decommissioning dates. “It’s not about stopping decommissioning,” Rudi Dicks, head of the project management office in the Presidency, said last month. “It’s about delaying decommissioning until we have sufficient generating capacity and reserve margins.” Photograph: Bloomberg

NO CARBON CRUNCH

8th March 2024

The Presidency has expressed confidence that South Africa will meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets even if it keeps some coal-fired plants, such as the one pictured here, open beyond... 


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Progress, but too slow

8th March 2024

There is growing impatience over the slow pace at which the South African government is moving to harness the $11.6-billion in concessional loans and grants pledged by several developed countries... 


Murray & Roberts CEO Henry Laas

M&R weighing capital-light re-entry into Australian mining market

7th March 2024

JSE-listed Murray & Roberts (M&R) says it still intends to regain a foothold in the Australian mining market, which it lost when RUC’s Australian holding company entered voluntary administration in... 


Pele Green Energy MD Gqi Raoleka

Pele Green Energy looking beyond R2.5bn funding innovation as it hastens towards ‘South African IPP’ vision

7th March 2024

Following its recent success in securing new public and private power purchase agreements, Pele Green Energy (PGE) is already having to consider additional funding options beyond the pioneering... 


Kendal power station

Move to formalise deal on injecting private skills into Eskom amid plan to add and recover 10.6 GW by end-2025

6th March 2024

Government and business have set a goal of increasing South Africa’s electricity generation capacity by 10.6 GW by the end of 2025 as part of ongoing collaborative efforts to tackle growth-sapping... 


Kusile stack

Eskom says it is on track for permanent repair of Kusile stack by December

5th March 2024

Eskom insists it is on track to complete the repairs to the ducts in the west stack at the Kusile power station by December 2024, ahead of the March 31, 2025, deadline set by the Department of... 


A consolidated view of South Africa's solar panel, battery and inverter imports from 2012 to 2023

Solar, battery, inverter imports surged to R70bn in 2023 as wind turbines recovered from two-year lull

4th March 2024

South African imports of solar panels, lithium-ion batteries and inverters climbed to a record $3.8-billion last year, or about R70-billion, while imports of wind turbines began to recover... 


Port of Durban

TNPA to appoint developer soon for common-user infrastructure required for LNG terminal

4th March 2024

South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) expects to appoint a developer within months for the common-user infrastructure required to support the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG)... 


Coal station

Assessment of Eskom coal fleet warns ‘fixation on the EAF is a dead end’

1st March 2024

An expert assessment of the state of Eskom’s 14 coal-fired power stations conducted between March and May 2023 describes the prevailing “fixation” on the coal fleet’s energy availability factor... 


National Treasury director-general Dr Duncan Pieterse

PPP reforms could avert need for prescribed-assets policy to increase private infrastructure investment – Pieterse

1st March 2024

National Treasury director-general Dr Duncan Pieterse says the reforms being proposed to facilitate greater private sector investment into infrastructure could obviate the need to introduce a... 


Wind, solar, batteries

Innovative 128 MW solar-wind-battery project achieves financial close

1st March 2024

The 128 MW Oya Energy hybrid project, which will combine variable renewables and batteries to produce dispatchable electricity daily between 5:00 and 21:30 for injection into South Africa’s... 


Electricity tariffs are currently determined using the MYPD methodology and involve various adjudication steps, including the public hearings pictured here

Not practical to implement new ‘black box’ tariff rules from 2025, Eskom insists

1st March 2024

Eskom says the Electricity Pricing Determination Rules (EPDR) approved by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) in December cannot be implemented for the 2025/26 financial year as... 


Powerlines

Former IPP Office head sees definite role for private sector in grid development but highlights need for consultation

1st March 2024

The former head of South Africa’s Independent Power Producer (IPP) Office, Karen Breytenbach, believes there is a compelling case for the injection of private sector investment to accelerate the... 


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Full transparency

1st March 2024

The decision to drawdown R150-billion from the Gold and Foreign Exchange Contingency Reserve Account (GFECRA) to reduce government borrowings and surging debt-servicing costs was the major feature... 


Acting TFR CEO Russell Baatjies and Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler (seated at centre) sign the agreement, in front of their respective teams, including (standing from left to right) Mario Klaasen, Loven Naidoo, Bonginkosi Mabaso, Pierre Koch, Pierre Taljaard and Kevin Govender, with Ayanda Mokhesi seated to the left of Baatjies and Brad Griffith and David Mokomela seated to Grobler’s right

Cabinet and business praise Sasol and TFR for ‘first-of-its-kind’ partnership to repair 128 ammonia tankers

29th February 2024

Both Cabinet and organised business have lauded the five-year public-private partnership agreement between Sasol and Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), under which the energy and chemicals group will... 


TFR train

Business sees appointment of Phillips as key step in accelerating Transnet Recovery Plan

29th February 2024

Organised business says the appointment of a permanent executive team at Transnet – led by CEO Michelle Phillips, who has been acting in the role since September and who has been with the utility... 


TFR acting CEO Russell Baatjies and Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler sign the agreement, alongside their respective teams

Sasol to fund TFR’s maintenance of 128 ammonia tankers

28th February 2024

JSE-listed Sasol has signed a five-year public-private partnership (PPP) agreement with Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), under which the energy and chemicals group will fund the maintenance and repair... 


AECI CEO Holger Riemensperger

Amid disposals, AECI aligns internationalisation strategy to regions geared for rapid critical minerals growth

28th February 2024

JSE-listed AECI, which is undergoing far-reaching restructuring to re-focus on its core mining and chemicals businesses and reduce debt, reports strong initial interest in the six noncore companies... 


Lineworkers work on a high-voltage powerline

Settling on funding solutions for expedited grid infrastructure set as a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan priority

27th February 2024

Finalising funding solutions for the expedited expansion of South Africa’s electricity transmission grid has been identified as a key priority for the Just Energy Transition (JET) project... 


Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler

Sasol prioritising coal de-stoning investment as it seeks to allay fears over big Secunda output dip

26th February 2024

Energy and chemicals group Sasol has moved to address investor concerns that its yearly production at Secunda will need to fall to only 6.7-million tons for it to meet its goal of reducing the... 


Grid infrastrucuture

Ramokgopa says govt close to finalising structure for private grid financing

26th February 2024

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says all the work being done by government on the financial structure to facilitate private investment into the country’s transmission infrastructure is... 


Solar panels

Another 124 power plants registered with Nersa raising total to 1 087 since 2018

23rd February 2024

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) reports that a further 124 generation facilities were registered during the third quarter of its financial year from October to December,... 


ArcelorMittal South Africa CEO Kobus Verster

AMSA sees plausible pathway for salvaging longs unit, but ready to reverse closure deferral if urgent progress is not made

23rd February 2024

Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has deferred the wind-down of its long-products business by six months amid widespread concern regarding the detrimental impact of the closure on... 


Power lines

Nersa makes far-reaching changes to tariff rules, but implementation timing uncertain

23rd February 2024

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved far-reaching changes to the way electricity tariffs will be set in future, but it could still take some time before the rules are... 


Bunker fuels terminal to be developed on a brownfield site at the Port of Richards Bay

Preferred bidder for Richards Bay bunker fuels terminal named

23rd February 2024

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has appointed FFS Tank Terminal as the preferred bidder to develop and operate a liquid bulk terminal specialising in bunker fuels on a brownfield site at... 


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