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            <description><![CDATA[Energy trader Etana Energy, JSE-listed real estate investment trust Growthpoint Properties and the City of Cape Town have successfully implemented the first pooled wheeling of renewable electricity model across multiple properties within the city’s municipal network. Building on the City of Cape Town’s first renewable electricity wheeling pilot, launched with Growthpoint and Etana in 2023, the parties say the new pooled wheeling model represents the next evolution of municipal wheeling.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The adoption of smart grid technologies is crucial for the future of South Africa’s power grid and its efficiency. Intelligence is key and smart grids are an enabler of intelligence, highlights University of Pretoria Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering Department head Professor Raj Naidoo. A significant portion of the country’s transmission and distribution losses arise from undetected faults, unmetered consumption, ageing assets operating beyond their design envelope and the absence of real-time situational awareness.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Having successfully hosted a two-day inaugural KZN Energy Indaba tailored to the prospects of Richards Bay and the broader KwaZulu-Natal, Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone (RBIDZ) and the province’s Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs are positioning the region as a leading energy hub and investment destination. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The worldwide renewable energy installed capacity is forecast to more than double to 8.4 TW by 2031, from 4.1 TW in 2025, and register a compound annual growth rate of 13% over the next five years, says market intelligence and consulting company GlobalData. Global renewable energy capacity reached a new peak in 2025, with the Asia–Pacific region dominating wind installations at 699.5 GW and solar PV capacity at 1 550 GW, led by China, the GlobalData 'Renewable Energy: Strategic Intelligence' report shows.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Africa had an energy deficit, highlighted African Union (AU) Commissioner for Infrastructure Lerato Mataboge, on Wednesday. She was addressing the 2026 Africa Energy Indaba, being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. "Energy is the foundation upon which modern economies are built," she pointed out. Without reliable energy, industrialisation was elusive, and the future of young Africans was bleak.]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Independent power producer Globeleq has announced the completion of its acquisition from Norfund of a 51% equity stake in Zambia’s Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company (LHPC). The remaining 49% of LHPC is owned by Wanda Gorge Investments, a Zambian-based infrastructure investment company.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid decarbonisation pressures and looming electricity tariff increases, South African property players are increasingly incorporating renewable-energy sources – such as on-site solar PV or offsite generation through hydro or wind power – into  their portfolios. This shift has been driven by the need to achieve sustainable development goals, improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, and mitigate ongoing energy security issues, explains Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) CEO Lisa Reynolds.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA) has emphasised that, although the registration process for small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) systems needs to be streamlined, it is a “critical” legal and safety requirement. SAPVIA’s comments follow recent public discourse regarding the need for households and businesses to register SSEG systems with State-owned Eskom or local municipalities.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[A total of 332 generation and storage projects with a combined nameplate of 31.7 GW have either received budget quotes for grid connection in South Africa or have budget-quote applications pending for grid connection before 2030, a newly publicly available online portal shows. Of that, nearly 24 GW is made up of 204 advanced projects (mostly in the form of variable renewables projects) that are seeking to be connected to the grid over the coming five years.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump offered on Friday to mediate a dispute over Nile River waters between Egypt and Ethiopia. "I am ready to restart US mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia to responsibly resolve the question of 'The Nile Water Sharing' once and for all," he wrote to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a letter that also was posted on Trump’s Truth Social account. ]]></description>
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            <title>South Africa leads Africa’s renewable-energy transition, report shows</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa continues to lead Africa’s renewable-energy transition, offering a growing range of investable opportunities in wind, solar, biofuels and green hydrogen, according to the latest Forvis Mazars ‘Powering Africa’s Future Energy’ report. The report highlights that South Africa generated more than 50 TWh from renewable sources in 2024, including hydroelectric at 10.1 TWh, solar at 8 TWh, wind at 9 TWh and other renewables rounding out the remaining 27.1 TWh, positioning the country as the continent’s top producer.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The professional body responsible for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) operations and maintenance, the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), is steadily progressing the construction of the Polihali dam and Polihali transfer tunnel as part of its Phase II water transfer works. The tunnel is set to be substantially completed in 2028 and the dam will achieve the same level of completion a year later in 2029. By the end of September 2025, the dam was 37% complete and the tunnel was approximately 46% complete, and the Phase II project will produce various benefits for Lesotho and South Africa, says LHDA public relations manager Mpho Brown.]]></description>
            <author>Trent Roebeck</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Enabling access to South Africa’s growing renewable energy generation capacity by addressing its transmission network constraints is a vital step in advancing the country’s energy transition. The delivery of the Impofu wind farms transmission line project in the Eastern Cape ahead of schedule, is a critical milestone in this regard. Electrical infrastructure contractor Siyavuya Power Projects CEO Graham Roebuck says this feat demonstrates that local contractors have the capability to effectively build large, complex power infrastructure despite ongoing concerns about national capacity.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[NOA Group – a renewable energy generator, aggregator and trader – is playing an important role in helping to transform South Africa’s energy market for the better.

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            <title>PowerChina targets Africa for renewables-focused growth</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[China's state-owned Power Construction Corp (PowerChina) is aiming for significant growth in Africa, focusing on renewable energy projects as part of its overseas expansion strategy, a company executive said. Chinese lending to African governments has fallen sharply from a 2016 peak of about $28-billion a year as Beijing grows more cautious about debt risk, but state-backed companies such as PowerChina are still pushing ahead with new projects, increasingly in renewable energy rather than coal.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this article, EE Business Intelligence MD Chris Yelland writes that Eskom's 'Medium-Term System Adequacy Outlook 2026–2030' report portrays a power system entering a delicate transition and that careful synchronisation of generation, gas infrastructure and grid expansion will be needed.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[JSE-listed real estate investment trust (Reit) Growthpoint Properties has acquired a 30% stake in independent power producer Serengeti Energy’s operational Boston Hydro plant near Clarens, in the Free State. The plant is a new R390-million development with an operational lifespan of over 40 years.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a water-scarce country such as South Africa environmental initiatives aimed at water management and marine ecosystem projects – such as Blue Bonds – are paramount and must be implemented, says law firm Webber Wentzel partner Lerato Nkanza. Although water scarcity is often exacerbated in Africa by poor infrastructure and climate change, as well as characterised by high urban demand and rural under-service, Blue Bonds offer a sustainable financing solution.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Western Cape Premier Alan Winde highlighted on Wednesday that South Africa still faces an energy crisis. Although loadshedding (scheduled rotating power cuts) has stopped, the country is still dependent on an ageing fleet of coal-fired power stations, he pointed out, while delivering the opening address for the Solar & Storage Live Cape Town 2025 conference and exhibition, being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. “My theme is – never, ever, waste a crisis!” he asserted, citing the example of Cape Town’s Day Zero water crisis, when, during the 2017-18 drought, the city came within 14 days, he reported, of completely running out of water. It didn’t, because Cape Townians changed their behaviour. Before the crisis, the city, then with a population of 4-million people, had used 1.2-billion litres of water a day (l/d). Today, with a population for 5-million (25% larger), the city used 800-million l/d of water.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global renewable power capacity is predicted to increase by 4 600 GW, or more than double, by 2030, led by the rapid rise of solar PV, says intergovernmental organisation the International Energy Agency (IEA). Solar PV will account for about 80% of the global increase in renewable power capacity over the next five years, driven by low costs and faster permitting timeframes, the organisation says in its 'Renewables 2025' report.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Climate change is accelerating environmental, social and governance (ESG) adoption by pushing companies to view sustainability as a source of competitiveness, consistent with the Ecological Modernisation Theory (EMT), says tertiary education institution University of Pretoria’s (UP’s) Graduate School of Technology Management associate professor Schalk Grobbelaar. EMT, he explains, is a perspective that suggests environmental challenges can be addressed through technological advancements, economic development and policy and institutional improvements.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced a €545-million Team Europe package to support Africa's transition to clean energy. The announcement was made by means of a video message at the Global Citizen Festival in the context of the UN General Assembly and is part of the European Commission’s ‘Scaling Up Renewables in Africa’ campaign, which is co-hosted with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Underpinned by sustainability, the goal of South African real estate investment trust Growthpoint Properties is to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across its portfolio by 2050. “We continue to invest in smart metering; have set net-zero targets for individual buildings; and we’re expanding renewable-energy capacity across our retail, commercial and industrial property portfolios,” says Growthpoint Properties Asset Management head Neil Schloss.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape, has been selected to anchor hybrid hotel and accommodation developer The Capital Hotel Group’s entry into the region, thereby addressing an underserviced market and positioning the developer for projected tourism and business travel growth. The new hotel was identified as a strategic growth node by The Capital Hotel Group and is scheduled to open in April 2026. The hotel aims to meet demand from domestic leisure travellers and regional corporate clients.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ethiopia officially inaugurates Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has unsettled the region. Ethiopia, the continent's second most populous nation with a population of 120 million, sees the $5-billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on a tributary of the River Nile as central to its ambitions for economic development.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Although the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) faces a series of significant obstacles – such as insufficient transmission infrastructure; drought conditions affecting hydropower plants; theft and vandalism; high technical and non-technical losses; funding gaps; and a 4 200 MW generation shortfall across interconnected member States – South Africa’s Deputy Electricity and Energy Minister Samantha Jane Graham-Maré has said these are surmountable with the right kind of cooperation and funding. “These are not small issues. They affect our economies, our communities and our ability for our industries to grow. But here's the good news: these challenges are not insurmountable. Think about it this way: if every country tries to build everything on its own, we spend more and we waste more.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses Eskom's invitation to large electricity users to bid for 291 MW of solar electricity that it is preparing to build and trade and the questions this raises about fair competition given Eskom's objections to traders.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mozambique won World Bank backing for its plan to build Southern Africa’s biggest hydropower plant in half a century. The lender plans to provide debt and equity funding as well as risk guarantees and insurance for the $5-billion Mphanda Nkuwa plant on the Zambezi river and an associated $1.4-billion power transmission project, World Bank President Ajay Banga said in an interview in Mozambique.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite renewables capacity having grown by more than 15.1% in 2024, the growth gap widens across regions, the ‘Renewable Energy Statistics 2025’ report released by international organisation the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) shows. The 15.1% annual growth rate was an increase of 0.7 percentage points over the 14.4% growth reported for 2023, and marks the highest yearly increase since 2000.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Zambia’s Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) expects to significantly expand the country’s renewable-energy capacity, by adding a projected 800-MW-plus of solar energy to the national grid, by the end of 2027. This programme is in line with the country’s efforts to diversify its energy sources in the face of climate change-induced shortfalls in its hydropower generation.   Zambia has always had predominantly green energy, in the form of hydropower from the Kariba dam. When the dam is full, Zambia’s share of the electricity generated is 3 GW, while the country’s demand is about 2.5 GW. But growing aridity in the Kafue and Zambesi rivers’ catchment areas has resulted in low dam levels, cutting its generating capacity significantly. Currently, Zambia is suffering from a generation shortfall of some 1.3 GW.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema on Monday opened the country's biggest grid-connected solar power plant, built by PowerChina, which will supply electricity to copper miner First Quantum Minerals. The 100 megawatt Chisamba project is expected to reduce the Southern African country's reliance on electricity imports from neighbours South Africa and Mozambique.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Africa added more than 4.5 GW new hydropower capacity in 2024, up from 2 GW in 2023, and hydropower now accounts for 20% of the continent’s total electricity generation, industry organisation the International Hydropower Association (IHA) says. According to its ‘2025 World Hydropower Outlook’, the capacity added in 2024 more than doubles the development of the preceding three years.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has affirmed that Africa does not face a choice between decarbonisation and industrialisation. On the contrary, it has to, and can do, both. He was delivering the keynote address at the Africa Energy Forum 2025, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Tuesday evening. “We will not accept the false binary between decarbonisation and industrialisation,” he stated. Decarbonisation could not be used to block African aspirations. It had to support African aspirations.  ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The European Investment Bank (EIB) is holding off on decisions to finance the $760-million Ruzizi III hydropower plant in Central Africa, due to fighting between Rwandan-backed rebels and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesperson said. Europe is ramping up pressure on the adversaries following January's blitzkrieg by Congolese rebels that saw them overrun the strategic cities of Goma and Bukavu, attacks condemned by African leaders and Western countries.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cape Town is set to accelerate its switch to green energy and limit reliance on erratic supply from the state power utility after winning a €150-million ($157-million) loan from Germany’s KfW Development Bank. The loan, which was agreed in December and will be announced this week at a ceremonial signing, will be used to bolster the power grid of South Africa’s second-biggest city to allow the transmission of more renewable energy, the bank said. It could also be used to help the municipality generate more of its own power, it added.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The International Energy Agency (IEA) anticipates global electricity consumption will increase at the fastest pace in years over 2025 to 2027, fuelled by growing industrial production, rising use of air conditioning, accelerating electrification and the expansion of data centres. Global electricity demand increased by 2.5% in 2023, 4.3% in 2024 and will likely grow by another 4% a year from 2025 to 2027.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Standard Bank has announced the close of a R567-million deal to fund Eswatini’s 13.5 MW Lower Maguduza hydropower project. The project was sponsored and developed by African Clean Energy Developments (ACED) with the African Infrastructure Investment Managers-managed IDEAS Fund and the Eswatini Public Service Pensions Fund as shareholders.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Loveness Madangawa prepares lunch over an open fire in Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe - she has an electric stove, but power cuts caused partly by drought hitting the main hydropower station means she has no choice. "It is not easy, but I am now used to it," the 35-year-old mother-of-three told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the densely populated suburb of Dangamvura. "Electricity is switched off as early as 4am and restored at 10pm. That is bedtime." Zimbabwe's long-running energy crisis has been exacerbated by southern Africa's worst drought in 40 years, which has seen millions of people go hungry and cut water supplies to the Kariba South hydropower plant on the Zimbabwe/Zambia border.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Trade and development finance institution the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed a project preparation facility financing agreement for an up to 200 MW private-sector, reservoir-based hydropower project to be located along the Lufira river, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The bank has partnered with independent power producer Kipay Investments, which will develop, design, build, install, commission and operate, as well as manage, the hydroelectric power plant.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe’s industrial power users have secured $250-million from the African Export-Import Bank to build floating solar panels at the world’s largest man-made lake. The Intensive Energy User Group, made up of mining companies including a former local unit of Rio Tinto and Mimosa, plan a 250 MW plant at the Kariba Dam to be implemented in 18 months, according to a copy of its presentation seen by Bloomberg. That can be expanded to 1 GW of solar capacity.]]></description>
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