South Africa: Eskom Handles Electricity Crises

Eskom Initiates 2nd wave of load shedding. Load shedding begins at 5 pm Monday and ends…

IBEDC Apologises for Extensive Power Outage

States under IBEDC will experience a prolonged power outage TCN power allocations drop from 692.5MW to…

EKEDC, NDPHC Sign Agreement to Improve Power Supply

EKEDC and NDPHC have signed an agreement for improving the power supply to the company’s distribution…

Cape Town’s 300MW Solar Power Serves as Litmus Test for South Africa

Cape Town opens the first round of tenders for independent entities to provide up to 300MW…

South Africa: Cape Town Plans Tender for IPP Power Purchase

Cape Town plans to gradually exit from the monopoly of the South African state-owned utility Eskom.…

Egbin Power Plant Partially Resumes Operations

Egbin Power Plant resumes operation following a fire incident. TCN restores 180MW from the partially resumed…

DisCos Blame Poor Supply on GenCos

EKEDC and IKEDC blame power outage on GenCos DisCos tender apology to customers The Eko Electricity…

SOUTH AFRICA: South African Businesses Increasingly Seeking Self-Generation – NERSA

Inquiries on self-generation increase say NERSA Eskom increased self-generation threshold to 100MW last year South African…

SOUTH AFRICA: City of Cape Town Rejects Eskom’s Tariff Application

Cape Town Mayor opposes Eskom’ tariff application Hill-Lewis says residents cannot afford a tariff increment Seeks…

Scatec to Provide Solar Plants in Cameroon and Chad

Scatec group has signed agreements to install solar plants in Cameroon and Chad. The solar plants…