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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.
Industrial gas users prepare to make ‘orderly transition’ case at crunch gas-cliff meeting
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...
IPPO confirms May 30 renewables bid deadline as it moves to accommodate grid quotes and curtailment
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...
Zululand Energy Terminal partners test market appetite for LNG services
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...
Curtailment framework in play for current renewables bidding round, Ramokgopa confirms
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...
Dispute over 5 km road could highlight far bigger road-building problem for Gauteng
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...
Climate Change Response Fund to channel resources to adaptation, early-warning systems – Creecy
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...
M&R weighing capital-light re-entry into Australian mining market
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...
Eskom says it is on track for permanent repair of Kusile stack by December
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...
TNPA to appoint developer soon for common-user infrastructure required for LNG terminal
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)...
Assessment of Eskom coal fleet warns ‘fixation on the EAF is a dead end’
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...
Innovative 128 MW solar-wind-battery project achieves financial close
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...
Not practical to implement new ‘black box’ tariff rules from 2025, Eskom insists
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...
Business sees appointment of Phillips as key step in accelerating Transnet Recovery Plan
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...
Sasol to fund TFR’s maintenance of 128 ammonia tankers
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...
Sasol prioritising coal de-stoning investment as it seeks to allay fears over big Secunda output dip
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...
Ramokgopa says govt close to finalising structure for private grid financing
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...
Another 124 power plants registered with Nersa raising total to 1 087 since 2018
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,...
Nersa makes far-reaching changes to tariff rules, but implementation timing uncertain
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...
Preferred bidder for Richards Bay bunker fuels terminal named
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...
Proposed reforms to PPP framework to accelerate infrastructure delivery welcomed
There has been positive, albeit cautious, reaction to the reforms announced by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to improve infrastructure financing and delivery and attract private sector...
Eskom insists downward EAF slide has been ‘arrested’ amid Stage 4 loadshedding
Eskom insists the performance of its unreliable generation fleet is on an improving trajectory, releasing a graphic-heavy statement on February 22 disputing a recent report stating that its...
Godongwana draws down R150bn from gold and forex account to reduce borrowings and debt-service costs
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana unveiled a far-reaching reform in relation to government’s treatment of the Gold and Foreign Exchange Contingency Reserve Account (GFECRA), which will result in...
R4bn may be removed from Eskom debt-relief for failure to meet EFC sale deadline
The South African government is proposing to reduce its planned allocations to Eskom under a previously announced R254-billion debt-relief package by R2-billion a year for the 2023/24 and 2024/25...
RFP for private transmission investment to be launched in July
The South African government will release a request for proposals (RFP) in the coming months seeking private sector investment into a pilot electricity grid infrastructure project. The National...
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