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            <title>September Distribution Agency Agreement deadline looms for Eskom-indebted municipalities</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Treasury has issued termination letters to 13 municipalities and is preparing to issue similar notices to 14 others in relation to their continued participation in a scheme set up in 2023 to address rising arrear debt to Eskom. Under the so-called Municipal Debt Relief Programme, municipalities that owed the State-owned utility a collective R58.5-billion as of March 2023 became eligible to have their historical debt written off over three years, with a maximum of one-third being cancelled in each year.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The University of Cape Town (UCT) has signed a power purchase agreement with Discovery Green for wheeled renewable electricity that will account for up to 90% of the electricity consumed across the institution’s main and health sciences campus from the third quarter of 2027 onwards. The near-ten-year PPA is described as the first of its kind concluded in South Africa between an electricity trader and a public institution of higher education.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>EU aims to use investor roadshow to convert €12bn pledge into South African projects</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The EU, which announced a €12-billion investment package for South Africa in October, is undertaking investment roadshows in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban this week as part of efforts to convert the high-profile investment pledge into firm projects. The EU and South Africa signed the Clean Trade and Investment Partnership (CTIP) in November last year, alongside a memorandum of understanding on sustainable minerals and metal value chains.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>TRADE &amp; INVESTMENT</category>
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            <title>Nersa completes its consideration and approval of electricity distributors’ tariffs </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Electricity Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) announced on Sunday that it had completed the evaluation and approval process for all the tariff applications from licensed municipal and private electricity distributors. These numbered 176, and were for the 2026/27 financial year, coming into effect on July 1. The regulator assured that the processing of these applications was done in accordance with the Electricity Regulation Act and with orders issued by the High Court on February 20 and May 26 this year. These rulings specified that municipal distributors’ tariffs had to be finalised and approved by May 11, and those of private distributors by May 30.]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <title>R3.8bn loan from Germany provides large chunk of electrical infrastructure backlog requirement ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) has secured a R3.8-billion loan from German State-owned development bank KfW, which it will use to finance critical electrical infrastructure investments in the 2025/26, 2026/27 and 2027/28 financial years. The 15-year facility is one of the largest concessional development finance facilities ever to be extended to a South African municipality.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Power utility Eskom has appointed Junaid Munshi group executive for its Distribution division, with effect from June 1. It says Munshi is a seasoned executive with more than three decades of engineering, marketing and commercial leadership experience in the technology and telecommunications sectors across South Africa and multiple African markets. Most recently, he served as chief commercial officer at Cable & Wireless Seychelles, where he was responsible for overall commercial strategy, revenue growth and market leadership, overseeing key functions including marketing, sales, customer service and field operations. Prior to this, he held senior executive roles within organisations including Maziv Group, Cell C and Vodacom Group.]]></description>
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            <title>Countries prioritising domestic energy options amid ‘largest-ever energy security crisis’</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Countries are increasingly prioritising domestic energy resources as they seek to reduce their reliance on imported fuels in response to what the International Energy Agency (IEA)  is describing as the world’s largest-ever energy security crisis, precipitated by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Presenting the IEA’s eleventh World Energy Investment report, executive director Fatih Birol said that besides moves to domesticate energy supply amid a growing trust deficit, governments were also reshaping their investment strategies around diversification, electrification and energy efficiency.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>Opinion: The electricity conversation nobody is having – tariffs are the market</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this article, Energy Council of South Africa project delivery senior manager Vasanie Pather writes that, as South Africa's electricity sector moves toward a competitive market, tariffs must ensure full and sustainable cost recovery for system operation and network infrastructure.]]></description>
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            <title>Eskom flags big renewables ambitions as it starts work on 75 MW solar project alongside Lethabo ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eskom has started construction of a 75 MW solar PV project alongside its Lethabo coal-fired power station in the Free State, which is expected to generate some 147 GWh yearly once at full production. The State-owned company said in a statement that the R1.2-billion project formed part of a “construction‑ready pipeline” of at least 2 GW of renewable energy and pumped storage projects to be progressed during 2026.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Sanlam Alternative Investments takes 10% stake in Africa GreenCo for $10m</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sanlam Alternative Investments, the alternative investments business within Sanlam, has become the first private institutional shareholder in renewable energy trader and buyer Africa GreenCo (GreenCo) through the investment of $10-million for a 10% shareholding. GreenCo states that, with more than 2 TWh of electricity traded to date, it holds the highest purchase-side market share across the Southern African Power Pool’s competitive markets. It adds that the investment by Sanlam Alternative Investments will help GreenCo further scale its trading operations.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the growing challenge of municipalities' failure to settle arrear debt owed to power utility Eskom, as well as the possible remedies to this growing problem.  ]]></description>
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            <title>Grid, renewable-energy expansions should proceed in parallel</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In South Africa, plans for strengthening the country's electricity transmission grid and further increasing renewable energy generating capacity are not yet in alignment, JUWI Renewable Energy deputy head of project development South Africa Beth O'Connor points out. She was addressing a session at the Enlit Africa 2026 Conference, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Thursday. (JUWI is a utility-scale provider in the renewables energy sector, undertaking project development, engineering and construction, and operations and maintenance, for projects with a capacity of 30 MW and upwards.) She noted that the variability of renewable energy had impacts on the grid. Currently, the country's grid was constrained in the Eastern, Western and Northern Cape, Free State and North West provinces, and partly constrained in Limpopo. These provinces included most of the country's renewable-energy potential. ]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[In South Africa, the water utilities and systems are treated as stepchildren, by the various levels of government, affirmed Association of Water and Sanitation Institutions of South Africa (Awsisa) chairperson and Rand Water chairperson Ramateu Monyokolo, on Wednesday. He was delivering a keynote address on the second day of the Enlit Africa 2026 Conference, being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Municipalities used water and electricity as cash cows, he highlighted, adding that they did not reinvest in their water (and electricity) systems. They paid everyone on time, except for Eskom and the water boards. Municipalities currently owed water boards a total of R27-billion. One municipality alone owed R9-billion. ]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electric technologies and energy solutions provider WEG has partnered with strategic energy investment company Energy Venture Capital (EVC) to provide funding of between R5-million and R500-million to hybrid energy projects in South Africa. The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly evaluate hybrid energy projects on a case-by-case basis and offer funding opportunities consistent with the energy market.]]></description>
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            <title>Water and electricity systems are coming together, Enlit audience hears</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Water and electricity systems are no longer separate and isolated, but are now intertwined in South Africa and across Africa. So highlighted Siemens South Africa CEO Sabine Dall'Omo, in her keynote address on the second day of the Enlit Africa 2026 conference, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Water needed electricity, she pointed out, for pumping and treating. Water and electricity were both essential to maintain and grow the country's industrial base. The two sectors were rapidly merging.]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <title>South Africa's biggest city could have power supply throttled over unpaid debts</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's biggest city and economic hub Johannesburg could have its power supply throttled by state-owned electricity company Eskom over unpaid debts, Eskom said on Tuesday. Engineering News reported on Monday that the utility had, in an advertisement published on Sunday, confirmed that the city and/or City Power owed it more than R5.25-billion and that it had decided to initiate a process that could result in the interruption of power supply “to stop spiralling debt”.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Proper asset management by Eskom has achieved an electricity availability factor of 65.16% this year-to-date, highlighted Eskom Rotek Industries (ERI) engineering manager Reinaldo da Veiga. He was addressing a session at the Enlit Africa 2026 Conference and Exhibition, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. "The main objective of our organisation (Eskom) is to supply electricity to South Africa," he pointed out. Proper asset management had also resulted in a 62.46% reduction in Eskom's year-on-year spending on diesel fuel, for generators. The utility, as of last Saturday (May 16), had also achieved 365 days without loadshedding.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Independent power producer and licensed trader NOA has amplified a recent call for the publication of a Cabinet-endorsed electricity reform roadmap to ensure that the shift to the competitive market structure envisaged in legislation and policy is implemented. NOA head of trading Andrew Taylor argued this week that the Electricity Regulation Amendment Act and the impending launch of the South African Electricity Wholesale Market (SAWEM) offered a credible path to a competitive, green and affordable electricity system, but currently lacked an authoritative, coherent and sequenced implementation plan.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that his department will publish a “sequenced” implementation roadmap for the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM) so as to address prevailing uncertainty over the transition to a competitive market structure. In his Budget Vote address on Tuesday, the Minister said the SAWEM would introduce clearer price signals, improve dispatch efficiency, allocate balancing responsibilities, improve transparency and reduce long-term reliance on the single buyer model.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Diversified miner South32’s Hillside Aluminium smelter in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, could continue operating for another 20 to 30 years if a competitive long-term electricity agreement is secured with State-owned power utility Eskom. This was stated by South32 executives at a gala event to celebrate the smelter's 30 years in operation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Power utility Eskom has confirmed that it will proceed with the interruption of bulk electricity supply to the Mamusa local municipality, in the North West, from May 8, after the municipality failed to reach an agreement with the State-owned entity to settle its outstanding debt. The utility in March notified 14 municipalities across the country of its intention to interrupt bulk electricity supply for several hours a day owing to the debt owed to Eskom by the municipalities for more than 18 months.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Industrial gases and welding products company Afrox has signed a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with renewable energy trading company Discovery Green to supply renewable energy to Afrox's Kuilsriver air separation unit (ASU), in Cape Town. Discovery Green will provide the ASU with about 28 GWh/y of renewable electricity under the agreement, starting in April 2028, from a diversified portfolio of wind and solar assets across the Western Cape, Mpumalanga and the Free State.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s utility-scale renewables and battery storage market is poised for a record year of installations, a new research note produced by the Power Futures Lab at the UCT Graduate School of Business shows. Authors Dr Olakunle Alao and Dr Wikus Kruger state that six projects with a combined capacity of 1 787 MW had already advanced to financial close by April 30, while a further 27 projects, representing 3 575 MW, are poised to achieve that milestone by year-end.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA) and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at unlocking industrial financing to NTCSA-verified suppliers and contractors involved in the expansion of South Africa’s electricity transmission network. In a joint statement, the two State-owned entities indicated that they would seek to use the funding to stimulate supplier development, localisation and industrialisation, with a particular focus on commodities such as transformers, insulators, hardware, transmission steel, conductors, and broader grid infrastructure construction.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that government is finalising an electricity reform policy paper in a bid to offer a “single-window overview of the sector's reform agenda”. Speaking at the release of Eskom’s 2026 winter outlook for the system, which indicates that there should be no loadshedding over the period, the Minister described the paper as long overdue and revealed it had already been drafted by his department.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) remains optimistic about prospects for ongoing growth in South Africa, stating in its newly released ‘Global Wind Report 2026’ that the country has about 17 GW of advanced projects that could enter construction within the next five years. While acknowledging the grid constraints that are limiting wind installations, the report nevertheless describes South Africa as an attractive market.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Independent power producer Mulilo reports that construction of its R1.4-billion Mercury battery energy storage system (BESS) project will begin soon and that the facility is scheduled to enter into commercial operation in the fourth quarter of 2027. The 76 MW/304 MWh project is the first of five projects awarded to Mulilo during Bid Window 2 of the Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme to have advanced to financial close.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Even under the low-carbon scenario, modelled by consulting firm Bain & Co in its 'Global Energy and Materials Outlook 2026' report, fossil fuel supply constitutes 52% of global primary energy supply by 2040 and the world warms by 2.1 °C by 2100. Even in the most coordinated decarbonisation scenario, climate impacts are severe and require that capital be allocated to resilience strategies, it notes.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Two of South Africa's major labour unions have accepted state power utility Eskom's 7% wage increase offer, while a third has rejected it and declared a deadlock, demanding a higher raise, union representatives said on Thursday. Eskom began pay talks last year with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and Solidarity, with several rounds of negotiations continuing until this month.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s power grid is entering a high-risk phase as the rapid rise of rooftop solar and renewable energy is starting to outpace the system’s original design capacity. The  transition to cleaner energy is no longer just an opportunity but also represents a technical balancing act that could determine grid stability in the years ahead, highlights global energy technology company Schneider Electric Middle East and Africa power and grid segment VP Taru Madangombe.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Decentralised microgrids are proving critical to accelerating electrification, easing energy constraints and improving resilience across South Africa, highlights South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) renewable energy manager Dr Karen Surridge. Microgrids are increasingly being positioned as a core component of the solution to the country’s energy access challenges, particularly in remote, underserved and fast-growing areas where conventional infrastructure struggles to keep pace. Surridge stressed that decentralised systems are not only expedient but also a necessary complement to broader electrification efforts.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s cable industry has the capacity and expertise to support grid optimisation, but only if it is protected against substandard imports that are undermining the safety and performance of industrial, domestic and renewable-energy installations, notes wire and electric cable manufacturer South Ocean Electric Wire (SOEW) CEO Andre Smith. He says the grid faces growing demand from renewable-energy integration, industrial recovery and electrification goals, with utilities, such as State-owned power utility Eskom and municipalities, increasingly relying on innovative reconductoring and uprating solutions to unlock additional capacity on existing corridors without lengthy environmental approvals or new tower construction.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s electricity reform momentum risks stalling unless transmission infrastructure is urgently expanded, with grid capacity, rather than generation investment, now the primary constraint to unlocking private investments and ensuring energy security, says renewable-energy company Discovery Green executive director and actuarial research head Dan Ginsberg. He argues that, in addition to continued policy reform, the immediate priority should be focused on the physical power grid build-out at scale. South Africa’s energy transition is increasingly shaped by a structural imbalance, with strong private-sector appetite to build generation capacity, but insufficient transmission capacity to connect new projects.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Solar energy company Wetility has released a free-to-use interactive lookup tool that allows anyone to search their municipality and view a detailed electricity outage profile, including average duration, monthly trends and how their area compares with the national average. South African households experienced an average of six to nine grid outages a month in 2025 and more than 91 000 unique outages were recorded during the year, the company says.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has the potential to develop at least one, and maybe as many as three, internationally competitive gigafactories for the manufacture of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells. This is the conclusion of a recent report undertaken for the non-profit and public benefit Localisation Support Fund (LSF) by Ernst & Young Advisory Services (EY-Parthenon). The biggest market will be the local manufacture of battery energy storage systems (BESS). Need and Demand]]></description>
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