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IRP 2023 comment deadline fast approaching

By: Creamer Media Reporter 20th March 2024 Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the fast-approaching deadline for public comment on the draft Integrated Resource Plan of 2023 and stakeholders' likely reaction. →

Conclusions in opaque IRP 2023 are ‘incorrect and economically damaging’

By: Terence Creamer 19th March 2024 In an excoriating assessment of the draft Integrated Resource Plan 2023 (IRP 2023), Meridian Economics points to serious problems with the modelling and cost assumptions used by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), which the consultancy says has resulted in “incorrect and... →

Unconstrained IRP would have far more wind and solar PV, analysis shows

Sungrow launches new three-phase battery/inverter system in South Africa

By: Darren Parker 15th March 2024 Solar power solutions company Sungrow has unveiled its three-phase inverter and battery energy solution in South Africa, featuring several new inverter models and battery options suited for both residential and commercial or industrial applications. For residential applications, the single phase... →

Tharisa launches its Redox One energy storage business

By: Sabrina Jardim 12th March 2024 Integrated resource group Tharisa has launched its Redox One business, which develops long-term energy storage solutions that incorporate the raw materials produced by Tharisa. The company says its solutions use proprietary proven technology developed over decades, including by the National... →

Redox One CEO THOMAS GEBAUER

Metair’s shares rise on expectation of higher earnings

By: Schalk Burger 11th March 2024 The share price of JSE-listed energy storage and automotive components company Metair rose by more than 26% on March 11, after the company announced that it expected to report earnings a share of 44c to 53c and headline earnings a share of 128c to 140c for the 2023 financial year. This compares... →

The Hesto Harnesses factory in South Africa

GDP figures cap decade of negative GDP per capita growth – BLSA

By: Schalk Burger 11th March 2024 While the gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the fourth quarter of 2023 was 0.1%, growth was negative in terms of GDP per capita, given that population growth is outpacing it. "We have been trending lower since 2013, and have now crowned a decade of negative per capita growth. South Africans... →

Locomotives used by Transnet Freight Rail

Move to formalise deal on injecting private skills into Eskom amid plan to add and recover 10.6 GW by end-2025

By: Terence Creamer 6th March 2024 Government and business have set a goal of increasing South Africa’s electricity generation capacity by 10.6 GW by the end of 2025 as part of ongoing collaborative efforts to tackle growth-sapping power disruptions and reduce the intensity and almost daily frequency of loadshedding by year-end.... →

Solar, battery, inverter imports surged to R70bn in 2023 as wind turbines recovered from two-year lull

By: Terence Creamer 4th March 2024 South African imports of solar panels, lithium-ion batteries and inverters climbed to a record $3.8-billion last year, or about R70-billion, while imports of wind turbines began to recover following a two-year lull, analysis compiled by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies senior economist Gaylor... →

Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies senior economist Gaylor Montmasson-Clair

Another 124 power plants registered with Nersa raising total to 1 087 since 2018

By: Terence Creamer 23rd February 2024 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, increasing the number of facilities registered since 2018 to 1 087. The newly registered generators have... →

Milken-Motsepe finalists in South Africa to showcase their off-grid, green energy designs

By: Irma Venter 20th February 2024 Bold, scaleable and collaborative – these are the three characteristics of the project that will clinch the $1-million Milken–Motsepe Prize in Green Energy, says Milken Institute senior director Dr Emily Musil Church. The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank bringing together... →

OMNIVAT's containerised energy solution

Energy Council of South Africa joins World Energy Council

By: Schalk Burger 19th February 2024 The Energy Council of South Africa has become a member of the United Nations-affiliated global body the World Energy Council (WEC), which will serve to strengthen the standing of the Energy Council of South Africa and provide access to a range of international resources and global networks, as... →

Innovative 128 MW solar-wind-battery project achieves financial close

By: Terence Creamer 14th February 2024 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 loadshedding-prone grid, reached financial close on Tuesday, February 13. The project was named as a... →

IEA to launch security programme for minerals critical to energy sector

By: Reuters 14th February 2024 The International Energy Agency (IEA) is launching a programme to secure the supply of minerals critical to energy security, as demand rises fast while manufacturing remains in the hands of a few key producers, its executive director said on Tuesday. Fatih Birol said the production of electric... →

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IEA executive director Fatih Birol

Sun Exchange moves to become solar, battery storage project developer

By: Schalk Burger 12th February 2024 Crowdsale-financing solar power projects company Sun Exchange will shift its focus to becoming a full-service commercial solar power and energy storage project developer, with all projects to be funded through corporate and institutional funders, but not individuals. “This enables us to continue... →

Business stakeholders find ‘election-oriented’ SoNA wanting

By: Marleny Arnoldi 9th February 2024 Business stakeholders agree that President Cyril Ramphosa was right to emphasise economic reforms in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on February 8, as these are critical to turning around the country’s dire economic performance and unemployment. Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), for... →

South Africa's electricity and logistics crises remain a concern for business

Loadshedding, logistics, water crises key themes of SoNA 2024

By: Creamer Media Reporter 9th February 2024 Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses some of the key themes that emerged during President Cyril Ramaphosa's final State of the Nation Address of the current administration and how these affect the economy and business. →

Loadshedding, logistics, water crises key themes of SoNA 2024

Clear commitment to reform implementation needed in SoNA – Mavuso

By: Schalk Burger 5th February 2024 Business organisation Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busi Mavuso has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to show a clear commitment to the hard work of reform implementation during his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on Thursday evening. South Africa's electricity crisis remains a... →

Locomotives operating on Transnet Freight Rail's rail lines

World Bank tours Cape Town’s Steenbras power plant, to augment support

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 2nd February 2024 City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Energy councillor Beverley van Reenen has hosted a World Bank delegation to the city’s Steenbras hydro pumped storage scheme. The Steenbras plant is used to protect city-supplied customers from up to two stages of loadshedding, where possible, and is... →

An image showing a World Bank delegation with City of Cape Town representatives at Steenbras

The visiting delegation at Steenbras

DMRE to remodel draft IRP 2023 in light of new information, curtailment plans

By: Schalk Burger 1st February 2024 Many of the submissions the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has received from the first round of public engagements about the draft Integrated Resource Plan 2023 (IRP 2023) in January have revealed new sources of data to consider in the plan’s modelling, DMRE energy planning... →

Power lines with the Kendal power station in the background

Energy Vault enters licensing deal for gravity storage solution with SADC-focused consortium

By: Terence Creamer 25th January 2024 Grid-scale energy storage solutions company Energy Vault has signed a licensing and royalty agreement with a South African consortium, established with the aim of deploying the NYSE-listed company’s gravity energy storage systems across the 16 countries that make up the Southern African... →

Energy transition offers once-in-century potential for South Africa to reindustrialise

By: Schalk Burger 25th January 2024 The global and local renewable energy transition is presenting industries, and South Africa, with a once-in-a-century growth trajectory to provide products and components into the value chains of renewable energy and battery energy storage systems (BESSs). During the second quarter of 2023, more... →

Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies senior economist and South African Renewable Energy Masterplan facilitator Gaylor Montmasson-Clair

ReElement Technologies signs MoU with Afrivolt to set up African battery, EV supply chain

By: Irma Venter 24th January 2024 Nasdaq-listed American Resources Corporation’s ReElement Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with energy storage company Afrivolt to establish a lithium-battery and electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing ecosystem in Africa, with a specific focus on West Africa. Afrivolt aims... →

Aqora becomes Afrivolt, aims for battery cell manufacturing in Cape Town

By: Irma Venter 24th January 2024 South African energy company Aqora has rebranded to become Afrivolt, says MD Deshan Naidoo. The firm’s goal, however, remains the same – opening a lithium-ion cell gigafactory in South Africa, able to produce anodes, cathodes and lithium-ion batteries for stationary storage applications and, in... →

Deshan Naidoo

Impower successfully installs solar PV, battery storage at E Cape estate

By: Sabrina Jardim 22nd January 2024 Solar installation company Impower has launched a flagship solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage system (BESS) facility at Coral Beach Residential Estate, in the Eastern Cape. Prior to the installation, the estate’s power supply depended on a busy commercial line, which was often... →

An image depicting an aerial view of Coral Beach Estate

DBSA to support participation of black firms, communities in bid windows for renewables, batteries and gas

By: Terence Creamer 22nd January 2024 State-owned development financier the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is gearing up to play a role in the public procurement of 7 615 MW of new electricity generation and storage capacity, including by facilitating participation for black-owned entities and communities. The DBSA has,... →

Electricity procurement picks up pace

By: Chanel de Bruyn 19th January 2024 Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the efforts being made to reinvigorate South Africa's public procurement of new electricity capacity after recent disappointments and amid ongoing loadshedding, as well as the key messages that emerged from bidders’ conferences on the country's... →

Electricity procurement picks up pace

1 000 MW gas-to-power cap placed on Richards Bay for first gas procurement round

By: Terence Creamer 18th January 2024 While ‘location agnostic’, South Africa’s inaugural 2 000 MW gas-to-power (GtP) procurement round is limiting the development of facilities in the City of uMhlathuze, where KwaZulu-Natal’s deep-water Port of Richards Bay has been earmarked as a future gas hub, to 1 000 MW – a threshold that will... →

TNPA recently selected a preferred bidder for a 25-year LNG terminal concession in the Port of Richards Bay's South Dunes precinct

Work under way to identify next battery sites amid bidding at eight North West substations

By: Terence Creamer 17th January 2024 Independent Power Producer Office head Bernard Magoro reports that work is under way to identify substation sites for the upcoming third Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (BESIPPPP) round while progressing with the second bid window (BW2) for 615 MW/2 460 MWh... →

Aerial view of Eskom's Hex battery energy storage facility

Independent Power Producer head Bernard Magoro provides an overview of the IPP’s BES Bid Window 2.

Fast-growing ENGIE South Africa will consider grid investments under right conditions

By: Terence Creamer 16th January 2024 Global independent power company ENGIE, which is prioritising the South African electricity market for significant organic and acquisitive growth, is also open to participating in grid investments should government move to open the market to private sector participation. ENGIE South Africa CEO... →

ENGIE South Africa CEO Mohamed Hoosen

Busy week for DMRE as it hosts IPP bidders conferences and IRP workshop

By: Terence Creamer 15th January 2024 The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) and the Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) have a busy week ahead, with three virtual bidders conferences to be hosted over Wednesday and Thursday, and with the department also schedule to host a public workshop on the draft 2023 edition... →

Proposed new IRP met with some skepticism

By: Creamer Media Reporter 12th January 2024 Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the background to the publication for public comment of the latest Integrated Resource Plan (IRP); the main changes in the IRP 2023, compared with the IRP 2019; the initial reaction to the new IRP; and the public commentary process. →

Proposed new IRP met with some skepticism

US researchers develop longer-life, rapidly charging, solid-state lithium battery

By: Rebecca Campbell 9th January 2024 A new solid state lithium metal battery, that can be charged within a matter of minutes and can be charged and discharged at least 6 000 times, has been developed by researchers at the John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University in the US. The new... →

South Africa's new energy plan is 'shoddy' and will probably fail – analysts

By: News24Wire 6th January 2024 South Africa's new energy generation plan lacks detail and leaves many unanswered questions, according to some energy analysts. The long-awaited draft of the Integrated Energy Plan (IRP) of 2023 was gazetted for public comment this week. →

Solar-powered e-truck sets new altitude record

By: Donna Slater 18th December 2023 A team of explorers – the Gebrüder Weiss Peak Evolution Team – followed through on successfully setting a new world altitude record for electric vehicles after driving an electric truck to an altitude of 6 500 m above sea level, mid-December. The team drove up to the western ridge of Ojos del... →

The Gebrüder Weiss Peak Evolution Team reached an altitude of 6 500 m in their solar and electric powered Aebi Schmidt truck

Construction of 216 MW solar, 500 MWh battery plant starts

By: Donna Slater 18th December 2023 The construction of a major hybrid renewables project in South Africa, comprising a 216 MW solar plant and a 500 MWh battery storage system to manage the intermittency of solar production, has been launched by diversified energy company TotalEnergies and its partners. The project, located in the... →

A 216 MW solar plant and a 500 MWh battery storage system are set to be constructed by TotalEnergies and partners in the Northern Cape

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A 216 MW solar plant and a 500 MWh battery storage system are set to be constructed by TotalEnergies and partners in the Northern Cape

Seventh RMIPPPP project reaches legal close

By: Donna Slater 18th December 2023 A seventh preferred bidder under the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s (DMRE’s) Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP) – the ACWA Power Project DAO – reached legal close on December 14. The project, with contracted capacity of 150 MW, is the seventh... →

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... →

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