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Eskom has written to the City of Johannesburg and its electricity utility City Power telling them that it will commence cutting power to South Africa’s largest city and economic heartland if the city doesn’t settle its bills. The power will be interrupted at “certain pre-determined times of day in accordance with the Promotion of Administrative […]
Eskom’s average of total unplanned outages over the past seven days has declined to 9.5GW, a significant improvement on the figure of 16GW in the same period last year. The state-owned electricity utility said it has moved much closer to its goal of achieving an “energy availability factor”, or EAF, by the end of March […]
South Africa’s rooftop solar installation industry has a bright future and is on track for its second-best year on record, despite the suspension of load shedding in March. That’s according to Andrew Middleton, co-founder and CEO of GoSolr, one of South Africa’s largest rooftop solar installation companies, who spoke to TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod on […]
South Africa’s deal with Karpowership to supply electricity to the country is “dead in the water”, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said. The company that’s a unit of Turkey’s Karadeniz Energy Group won a government auction three years ago to provide 1.2GW of power over 20 years in a deal valued at R218-billion at the time. […]