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Eskom ends grid access for Karpowership

By: Bloomberg 5th January 2024 Eskom Holdings said it will no longer reserve the transmission capacity it had agreed to set aside for winners of a South African tender for emergency power provision that didn’t meet a Dec. 31 deadline to complete their financial arrangements. The decision is a blow for Karpowership, the Turkish... →

South Africa moves to procure 5GW of renewables, 2GW of gas-to-power, 615 MW of battery storage

By: Terence Creamer 14th December 2023 The South African government has released three requests for proposals (RFPs) for new electricity generation and storage capacity, including 5 000 MW of new wind and solar, 2 000 MW of gas-to-power and 615 MW/2 460 MWh of battery storage. Under the much anticipated and delayed seventh bid window... →

COP28 ends with deal on transition away from fossil fuels

By: Bloomberg 13th December 2023 The COP28 climate talks in Dubai ended in a deal that saw a commitment to transition away from all fossil fuels for the first time. The president of this year’s UN-sponsored summit, the UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber, brokered an agreement that was strong enough for the US and European Union on the need... →

COP28 president Dr Sultan Al Jaber

Ntshavheni confirms draft IRP 2023 contains ‘significant’ revisions, but offers no clarity on consultation process

By: Terence Creamer 11th December 2023 Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has confirmed that the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) approved by Cabinet for public comment includes two time horizons as well as significant changes to the underlying assumptions that inform the plan when compared with the prevailing... →

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Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni

IRP update approved by Cabinet includes new coal decommissioning schedule

By: Terence Creamer 10th December 2023 Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that Cabinet has approved the release of an updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for public comment and also confirms that the document contains a revised decommissioning schedule for Eskom’s aged coal power stations when compared with the... →

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has confirmed that the IRP update contains a revised decommissioning schedule for Eskom’s aged coal power stations.

Eskom's new CEO confirmed

By: News24Wire 8th December 2023 Daniel Leseja Marokane has been appointed as chief executive officer of Eskom. On Friday afternoon, Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan said Marokane would join Eskom no later than 31 March 2024. →

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Dan Marokane

South Africa set to pick Dan Marokane as new Eskom CEO

By: Bloomberg 7th December 2023 Dan Marokane is expected to be appointed as the new CEO of South Africa’s state power utility Eskom Holdings after an almost year-long search for a candidate, according to people familiar with the decision. The company’s failure to boost generation from its old and poorly maintained power plants... →

Mantashe says special Cabinet meeting will consider IRP update after Ministers request time to ‘apply their minds’

By: Terence Creamer 30th November 2023 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe confirmed that an update of the Integrated Resource Plan, which he has previously dubbed ‘IRP2023’, had served before Cabinet on November 29, but that his Ministerial colleagues had requested more deliberation time before approving the document... →

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Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe

Four utility-scale battery projects worth R10bn selected following inaugural public tender

By: Terence Creamer 30th November 2023 The South African government has selected preferred bidders for the development of four utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the Northern Cape, with a combined investment value of R10-billion. The four BESS installations will have a combined capacity of 360 MW/1 440 MWh,... →

Access to water, logistics infrastructure major hurdles to hydrogen economy

By: Darren Parker 30th November 2023 One of the challenges standing in the way of South Africa becoming a world-class green hydrogen producer is that South Africa is a water-scarce country, and that enormous volumes of water are needed to produce hydrogen, law firm Bowmans associate Marga Jordaan has said. “[We] need to take into... →

hydrogen tank with solar and wind energy

$13.5tr needed by 2050 for decarbonisation, especially in hard-to-abate industry sectors

By: Schalk Burger 28th November 2023 The world will require $13.5-trillion in investments by 2050 to transition to a more sustainable and carbon-neutral future, particularly in the production, energy and transport sectors, the World Economic Forum (WEF) states in its 'Net-Zero Industry Tracker 2023' report, which was published in... →

New challenge to delay Karpowership's Richards Bay plant

By: News24Wire 23rd November 2023 Karpowership has been hit with a new challenge, as civil society groups have appealed the environmental approval it received for its proposed Richards Bay plant. The groups groundWork and the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), who are represented by the Centre for... →

Petroleum industry significantly impacted on by loadshedding

By: Darren Parker 21st November 2023 The South African Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia) says the ongoing loadshedding crisis has significantly impacted on its members, with widespread power outages affecting various sectors of its business operations, with substantial implications. Among the areas of business most affected by... →

Sapia executive director Avhapfani Tshifularo

Gas-supply cliff is South Africa’s next crisis, energy body says

By: Bloomberg 17th November 2023 South Africa’s supply of natural gas is set to plunge within the next three to four years and there’s a risk of a shortfall triggering the country’s next economic crisis, the head of an industry body warned. With Sasol set to curb production of the fuel from its fields in Mozambique between 2026... →

South Africa still weighing impact of charging Eskom interest

By: Bloomberg 9th November 2023 South Africa is still assessing the effect of adding interest to a R254-billion debt relief package for state-owned Eskom Holdings as the company prepares to split into three, according to a National Treasury official. Treasury announced in last week’s budget that it would convert the loans in... →

Lack of curtailment framework holding up renewables round, IPP Office confirms

By: Terence Creamer 7th November 2023 South Africa’s Independent Power Producer (IPP) Office has indicated that the procurement documentation for both the next public renewables round and a gas-to-power programme are at an advanced stage but the timing of their release to the market is dependent on the conclusion of “various grid... →

Mantashe seeks to extend life of coal-fired power stations

3rd November 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... →

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... →

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

Karpowership receives long-awaited enviro approval for Richards Bay powership

By: Marleny Arnoldi 27th October 2023 Following much contestation from environmental groups, Turkish energy company Karpowership’s South African subsidiary has succeeded in getting environmental authorisation for its Richards Bay environmental-impact assessment (EIA) application. This represents a critical milestone in Karpowership’s... →

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Karpowership FSRU

Turkish firm restores power to Bissau after part of arrears paid

By: Reuters 19th October 2023 Power returned to Guinea-Bissau's capital on Wednesday afternoon after the West African country's government resumed payments to Turkish company Karpowership, which had plunged the city into darkness due to an unpaid debt of $17-million. Karpowership said it cut off electricity supplies to... →

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

Guinea-Bissau capital in darkness after Turkish firm cuts power supply

By: Reuters 18th October 2023 Guinea-Bissau's capital was plunged into darkness on Tuesday after Turkish company Karpowership cut off electricity supplies to the West African nation due to an unpaid debt of $17-million, the economy minister said. Minister Suleimane Seidi said arrangements were under way to pay $15-million of... →

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... →

EPR regulations positive for waste reduction

By: Bridget Lepere 6th October 2023 The amended Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations, instituted in November 2020, require product importers and manufacturers in the packaging industry to contribute towards the recycling of product packaging, which has had a significant impact on waste production, says Zero Waste... →

Image of a backhoe loader loading organic waste

DUMP DIVING The Western Cape government implemented a regulation in 2022 to divert organic waste out of landfills by imposing a 50% ban on organic waste dumping to landfills in preparation for a 100% ban in 2027

Renergen achieves environmental permit milestone

By: Simone Liedtke 29th September 2023 Green energy supplier Renergen’s Virginia Phase 2 gas project, in South Africa’s Free State, has achieved a significant milestone with the receipt of environmental authorisation (EA). The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy has granted an EA in terms of Section 24 of the National... →

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

Energy Council CEO sees 2023 as a turning point in the energy crisis, but warns of slow decarbonisation progress

By: Darren Parker 14th September 2023 Industry body the Energy Council of South Africa CEO James Mackay has said there is sufficient reason to believe that loadshedding could end as early as the end of 2024, but warns that South Africa is not on track to meet its decarbonisation targets. Mackay was speaking at the Solutions From the... →

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Energy Council of South Africa CEO James Mackay

DSI pursuing private sector partnerships to industrialise hydrogen catalyser projects

By: Darren Parker 8th September 2023 Speaking at the Devac Hydrogen-H Conference in Johannesburg on September 7, Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) hydrogen and energy acting chief director Dr Cosmas Chiteme said the department was actively pursuing partnerships, especially with the private sector, to implement key hydrogen... →

New challenge brewing for Karpowership's Saldanha Bay plant

By: News24Wire 8th September 2023 Two eco-justice groups plan to challenge Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy's decision to allow Karpowership SA to submit a key document for the environmental approval of its proposed Saldanha Bay plant. In July, Creecy had overturned a decision by her department's chief... →

Kinetiko expects to complete Afro Energy buyout soon

By: Darren Parker 4th September 2023 Energy company Kinetiko Energy expects that it will formally close the acquisition of 100% of Afro Energy within the next few weeks. Australia-headquartered Kinetiko is developing an energy transition solution for South Africa focused on commercialising advanced shallow conventional gas projects... →

Ramokgopa working with DMRE to have updated IRP released for consultation soon

By: Terence Creamer 2nd September 2023 Although persisting with his position that he has the powers to determine the sources of new generation, Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says because the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s (DMRE’s) updating process is well advanced, he is supporting the department in... →

Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

An updated IRP and Eskom's restructuring make headlines

By: Creamer Media Reporter 1st September 2023 Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe's plan to take an updated Integrated Resource Plan through Cabinet processes soon and the latest update from the Department of Public Enterprises on Eskom's restructuring. →

An updated IRP and Eskom's restructuring make headlines

Large-scale waste-to-DME projects in development

By: Nadine Ramdass 1st September 2023 Large-scale waste-to-dimethyl ether (DME) projects, one based in north-west Europe and the other on the Gulf Coast of the US, are in the feasibility stage, with the projects anticipated to produce the equivalent of about 165 000 t/y of renewable and recycled DME production. Off-grid energy... →

Global gas consumption to continue growth in 2023 – report

1st September 2023 Global gas consumption is expected to continuing growing in the latter half of this year, mainly driven by increasing energy demand in China, the US and some emerging countries in Asia Pacific, says the Gas Exporting Countries Forum’s (GECF’s) Monthly Gas Market Report, released last month.... →

Mantashe aiming to secure Cabinet approval for ‘IRP 2023’ in Sept

By: Terence Creamer 29th August 2023 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is aiming to seek Cabinet approval to publish an updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for public consultation during an upcoming Cabinet meeting in September. Speaking on the sidelines of a critical minerals summit in Sandton, Mantashe... →

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe

Finnish group contracted to provide long-term maintenance at Senegalese power station

By: Rebecca Campbell 29th August 2023 US-based global energy company ContourGlobal has entered into a long-term service agreement with Finland-based global energy and marine technology and lifecycle solutions group Wärtsilä for the former’s Cap des Biches power plant in Dakar, Senegal. Although Wärtsilä booked this contract in March,... →

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