Loadshedding
Eskom granted exemption to operate temporary stacks at Kusile for 13 months 
By: Terence Creamer 15th March 2023 Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has granted Eskom exemption that will enable it to operate temporary stacks at the... →
Outages fuel voter antipathy to South Africa’s ANC, poll shows
By: Bloomberg 15th March 2023 More than half of South African taxpayers want to vote the governing party out of power in next year’s elections because of rolling blackouts, a... →
Loadshedding downgraded from Wednesday
By: News24Wire 14th March 2023 Due to some recovery in generation capacity over the past 48 hours, loadshedding will be reduced to Stage 3 from 05:00 on Wednesday until 16:00.... →
DTIC’s new energy one-stop shop to include ‘unblocking teams’ to speed up electricity investments
By: Terence Creamer 14th March 2023 Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel reports that that energy one-stop-shop to speed up the regulatory processes required for... →
Re-pursue exploration to help re-build South Africa’s economy, says business booster
By: Martin Creamer 13th March 2023 Let us re-pursue the exploration investment that catalysed South Africa’s economic growth more than a century ago as a means of helping to rebuild... →
W Cape appoints former Eskom exec to tackle energy issues in the province
By: Sane Dhlamini 10th March 2023 Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said following his last meeting with Andre de Ruyter, where the former Eskom CEO painted a bleak picture of South... →
Electricity minister says it's 'highly irresponsible' to predict when loadshedding will end
By: News24Wire 10th March 2023 Newly appointed Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa believes government will be ambitious in its plans to stop loadshedding, but he is not... →
Stage 5 loadshedding suspended, Stage 4 to continue
By: News24Wire 8th March 2023 Eskom has announced that there will not be any Stage 5 loadshedding for the week, as previously communicated; however, Stage 4 will continue until... →
Loadshedding contributes to lower first-quarter business confidence
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 8th March 2023 The RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) declined further from 38 points in the fourth quarter of 2022 to 36 in the first quarter of this year.... →
Karpowership appeal fails, deepening South Africa's power crisis
By: Bloomberg 8th March 2023 Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply 1 220 MW of electricity to South Africa, had one of three appeals against adverse environmental... →
Eskom will miss target to boost power output from coal plants
By: Bloomberg 7th March 2023 State power utility Eskom will miss a target to boost output from struggling coal-fired plants by the end of March, highlighting the poor state of... →
