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Energy crisis being addressed, but implementation is slow, admits DMRE DG

By: Irma Venter 3rd November 2023 One of the biggest positive developments over the last 12 months has been the “convergence of ideas on what we need to do to resolve the energy crisis”, said Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) director-general (DG) Jacob Mbele. “We come from a period where people were pushing for... →

South Africa should not be ‘pushed into a corner’ on energy funding, say SANEDI and Eskom

By: Irma Venter 3rd November 2023 While any funding of South Africa’s embattled energy sector is welcome, South Africa should not “be pushed into a corner” on how this money should be spent, said South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) CEO Dr Zwanani Titus Mathe. “South Africa should not be dictated to on... →

Panel stresses need for supply chain diversification

By: Marleny Arnoldi 2nd November 2023 As Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, it has shone a spotlight on supply chains and the sourcing of materials. Speaking during a panel hosted by British newspaper Financial Times during its Energy Transition Summit, on November 1, Ukrainian energy holding company DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko... →

Eskom says its coal pollution kills 330 South Africans a year

By: Bloomberg 2nd November 2023 State power utility Eskom Holdings said pollution from its coal-fired plants that supply more than 80% of the country’s power kills about 330 people a year. The figure, which Eskom drew from its own research, contrasts with a number of independent reports that put the figure at between 650 and 2... →

Municipalities owing Eskom R56.8bn apply to participate in debt write-off scheme

By: Terence Creamer 1st November 2023 The National Treasury has confirmed that a total of 67 municipalities, which collectively owe Eskom R56.8-billion, or 97% of the municipal arrears debt of over R58-billion owed to the utility at the end of March, have formally applied to participate in the debt write-off programme. The National... →

Eskom warns of another R23bn loss as loadshedding underpins R24bn collapse

By: Terence Creamer 31st October 2023 Eskom has warned that it is likely to report another R23-billion-plus loss for its current financial year to the end of March 2024, having belatedly confirmed a loss of R24-billion (R12-billion) for its 2022/23 financial year, during which loadshedding was implemented on a record 280 days. Acting... →

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Acting Eskom CEO Calib Cassim

South Africa's energy transition gathers pace

By: Schalk Burger 27th October 2023 Speakers across a range of disciplines and domains have said that South Africa's electricity market is transitioning to a more pluralistic market that will also include a much larger range of services to support generation, transmission, aggregation, grid balancing, energy trading, day-ahead and... →

Solar panels, wind turbines and transmission lines

Floating tankers line up off South Africa to ensure diesel power

By: Bloomberg 27th October 2023 South Africa is using ships to store diesel as part of an effort to ensure supply to run generators and reduce electricity outages that have crimped the economy. Diesel-fired turbines typically intended for peak use have been increasingly run to meet demand while state-owned utility Eskom... →

Top bond investor slams South Africa bid to fix State firms

By: Bloomberg 24th October 2023 Futuregrowth Asset Management, a South African money manager overseeing more than R190-billion of fixed-income assets, says the government’s draft legislation meant to address inefficiencies at state entities is “ineffective, overdue, vague, and contradictory”. The National State Enterprises Bill... →

‘Height of folly’ to develop overreliance on aged coal plants for future supply

By: Terence Creamer 23rd October 2023 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says attention should shift to adding new and cleaner generation to the loadshedding-prone electricity system, acknowledging that it would be the “height of folly” to rely on significantly extending the life of the breakdown-prone coal stations. While... →

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Africa needs an energy transition that reflects its reality – Congo, South Sudan Ministers

By: Irma Venter 20th October 2023 Africa is largely transitioning "from nothing”, says South Sudan Petroleum Minister Puot Kang Chol. Speaking on Africa’s agenda for the forthcoming COP28 at the African Energy Week held in Cape Town this week, Chol said to “transition means to move – we need to move to energy first before can... →

Africa needs reliable energy, says South Sudan

South Africa mulls Dutch, Danish entry to $8.5bn climate pact

By: Bloomberg 18th October 2023 South Africa’s Cabinet will consider a proposal on whether to include the Netherlands and Denmark in its landmark $8.5 billion climate-finance pact with some of the world’s richest nations. Expanding the so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership could give momentum to the implementation of an... →

Energy crisis being addressed, but implementation is slow, admits DMRE DG

By: Irma Venter 18th October 2023 One of the biggest positive developments over the last 12 months has been the “convergence of ideas on what we need to do to resolve the energy crisis”, says Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) director-general (DG) Jacob Mbele. “We come from a period where people were pushing for... →

DMRE director-general Jacob Mbele

Mantashe seeks to extend the life of Eskom’s coal-fired power stations

By: Irma Venter 18th October 2023 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has called on the private sector to “please and come talk to us” if they have any ideas on extending the life of South Africa’s fleet of coal-fired power stations. “There are many that have been earmarked for decommissioning because they are... →

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe

South Africa should not be pushed into a corner on just energy transition funding – Eskom, SANEDI

By: Irma Venter 18th October 2023 While any funding of South Africa’s embattled energy sector is welcome, South Africa should not “be pushed into a corner” on how this money should be spent, says South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) CEO Dr Zwanani Titus Mathe. “South Africa should not be dictated to on... →

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Eskom Primary Energy GM Dan Mashigo

Experts highlight the potential of recoverable energy power generation

By: Darren Parker 17th October 2023 Significant additional clean electricity can be generated economically by combining dry and wet cooling technologies at power plants, Industrial Water Cooling (IWC) consulting and research and development manager Dr Hanno Reuter, who is also an extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University,... →

Using Air Cooled Condensers ACCs for recoverable energy in power generation

Eskom sub-contractor arrested for allegedly soliciting bribe from coal truckers

By: News24Wire 17th October 2023 An Eskom sub-contractor was arrested last week for allegedly trying to solicit a bribe from a coal transport company at the Camden power station in Mpumalanga. The suspect, who was arrested on 11 October, was a sub-contractor for the power utility's Eskom Rotek Industries subsidiary, which does... →

Ramaphosa says loadshedding corner has been turned as another Kusile unit restarts

By: Terence Creamer 17th October 2023 African National Congress President Cyril Ramaphosa claims that South Africa “has turned a definite corner as far as loadshedding is concerned”, adding that the levels and frequency of loadshedding are expected to improve during the fourth quarter. In closing remarks following the party’s... →

Eskom supplied photo showing Kusile units in operation

Eskom-supplied photo showing some Kusile units in operation

Ramaphosa rules out privatisating State companies

By: Bloomberg 17th October 2023 President Cyril Ramaphosa reiterated that his administration wasn’t moving to privatize state-owned companies as the government initiates reforms to clean up their balance sheets and revive their performance. Private-sector investment was necessary to mobilize funds for economic infrastructure... →

Former Eskom employees targeted in Sars coal syndicate raids

By: News24Wire 12th October 2023 The South African Revenue Service led a large-scale government search and seizure operation against several alleged members of coal smuggling syndicates across the country on Thursday, including former Eskom employees. "The alleged coal-smugglers and their related entities are active and have a... →

Sars Commissioner Edward Kieswetter

South Africa targets coal-smuggling syndicate across five provinces

By: Bloomberg 12th October 2023 The South African Revenue Service and other government agencies said they disrupted a coal smuggling syndicate operating across five of the country’s nine provinces. The search-and-seizure operation targeted former employees of state power utility Eskom Holdings “who facilitated procurement... →

MTN's Nyati to succeed Makwana as Eskom chair

By: Bloomberg 9th October 2023 Mpho Makwana will step down as chairman of South Africa’s beleaguered power utility at Eskom Holdings’ annual general meeting at the end of the month. He will be replaced by former MTN Group Ltd. executive and ex-chief executive officer of Altron, Mteto Nyati, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin... →

Kusile Unit 3 supplying 720 MW to grid, Eskom confirms

By: Terence Creamer 9th October 2023 Eskom has confirmed that Unit 3 at the Kusile coal-fired power station is currently providing 720 MW into the electricity grid using a temporary flue that bypasses the flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) pollution control system. Unit 3 was restarted on September 30, just short of a year after it as... →

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The Kusile power station

R2bn Kusile corruption case: Court holds hearing to establish if State has its ducks in a row

By: News24Wire 5th October 2023 The lead investigating officer in the R2.2-billion Kusile corruption case involving former Eskom executive Matshela Koko, has begged the Middleburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Mpumalanga not to strike the matter off the roll. The officer, who cannot be named in terms of a court order,... →

Pace of energy transition will define South Africa’s economic prospects – Olver

By: Terence Creamer 5th October 2023 Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) executive director Dr Crispian Olver says South Africa’s energy transition and the pace at which it progresses will determine the country’s long-term economic and human-development prospects and should, thus, no longer be treated only as an environmental... →

PCC executive director Dr Crispian Olver

Business, govt collaboration showing signs of success in addressing multiple crises

By: Marleny Arnoldi 4th October 2023 Business is working to add more than 10 GW of generation capacity to the electricity system by the end of next year, which would effectively end loadshedding in South Africa, Sasol president and CEO Fleetwood Grobler said on the first day of the Joburg Indaba on October 4. Speaking in his... →

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Energy Council of South Africa chairperson and Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler

The just energy transition in South Africa will need blended finance and collaboration

By: Rebecca Campbell 3rd October 2023 A key question facing South Africa, regarding the just energy transition, was how to finance it. So highlighted University of Stellenbosch Centre for Sustainability Transitions co-director Prof Mark Swilling at the Windaba Connect symposium, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on... →

NUM calls for halt of Eskom unbundling, JET to ensure fairness

By: Marleny Arnoldi 2nd October 2023 The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called for a delay in the implementation of the just energy transition (JET) until such time that all stakeholders are convinced that such a move will be fair and just to workers and communities. The union also demands that the unbundling process of... →

As Kusile unit returns early, South Africa misses renewables procurement deadline

By: Terence Creamer 1st October 2023 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has welcomed the earlier-than-expected return of Kusile Unit 3 coal-fired generation, but has also acknowledged that government simultaneously failed to meet its end of September deadline for the release of the next public procurement round for renewable... →

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Seriti's Teke defends his dual belief in coal and renewables

By: Darren Parker 29th September 2023 Coal mining company Seriti Resources CEO Mike Teke has hit back at critics who have labelled his desire to invest in renewable energy while being a coal advocate as contradictory. Speaking at the Wits Mining Seminar, in Johannesburg, on September 28, Teke said he had received criticism for being... →

Seriti Resources CEO Mike Teke

Striking workers at key South Africa coal port reject wage offer

By: Bloomberg 29th September 2023 Workers at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal in South Africa rejected its latest wage offer and will continue to strike, according to the main labour union at the port. Members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union lowered their demand to a one-year 7% basic salary increase and a... →

Eskom's summer outlook

By: Creamer Media Reporter 29th September 2023 Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses Eskom's system outlook for the high-maintenance summer months; the early return of units at Kusile and the impact of that decision on pollution; and an update on Koeberg. →

Eskom's summer outlook

Eskom aiming not to breach Stage 4 loadshedding this summer

By: Terence Creamer 27th September 2023 Eskom is aiming to limit loadshedding to Stage 4 during the summer months to the end of March by restricting unplanned breakdowns to 14 500 MW during what is also its high-maintenance season, when planned outages of about 7 000 MW will be implemented. Interim CEO Calib Cassim indicated on... →

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Interim Eskom CEO Calib Cassim

Eskom pollutes more in bid to keep lights on

By: Reuters 27th September 2023 Four of South African State utility Eskom's 15 coal-fired power plants are breaching government emissions regulations as it pushes ageing facilities to their limits, a Reuters analysis of company data found and Eskom officials confirmed. Africa's most developed economy is facing its worst power... →

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The Kriel power station

Creecy upholds decision allowing Kusile to bypass pollution system, with tighter conditions

By: Terence Creamer 26th September 2023 Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has upheld the decision of the National Air Quality Officer (NAQO) to permit the temporary operation of the Kusile coal power station using temporary stacks that bypass the flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) pollution-control plant. The... →

Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy

Sasol’s plans to replace coal with LNG put on hold

By: Darren Parker 26th September 2023 JSE-listed energy company Sasol has placed on hold the implementation of its planned additional gas reforming capacity at its Secunda plant, in Mpumalanga. Speaking at an investor site visit on September 22 in Secunda, Sasol environmental sustainability VP Sarushen Pillay said that the decision... →

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Sasol Secunda

Early Kusile restart uncertain as Creecy adjudicates emissions appeal

By: Terence Creamer 22nd September 2023 The Department of Fisheries, Forestry and the Environment (DFFE) has confirmed that Minister Barbara Creecy is still adjudicating an appeal of the National Air Quality Officer’s (NAQO’s) decision to postpone a requirement for the Kusile power station to meet Minimum Emission Standards. The NAQO,... →

Electricity Minister Kgosietsho Ramokgopa says Eskom has provided a response to the issues raised in the appeal

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