Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has declared that the worst of the load shedding crisis is over. Is he right?
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Ending power cuts completely will probably take another five years if the infusion of more solar and wind capacity proceeds as currently planned.
There’s a growing fear that the national electricity grid could, at some point, collapse entirely.
The result of Eskom’s woes is that South Africans are increasingly being forced to explore alternative sources of electricity.
The mishandling of the Koeberg life extension project raises serious questions about the capacity of South Africa’s nuclear sector.
A revised Integrated Resource Plan is needed, especially in view of the rapid developments in energy-generating technologies. By Hartmut Winkler.
The decreasing performance of the existing Eskom plants is evident in the steady decline of the energy availability factor. On average, 35% of Eskom’s power plants are standing idle at any particular time.
Eskom recently repeated that it will not conclude supply contracts with the developers of new renewable energy power stations. These developers were selected under a programme to facilitate private sector involvement in the
Nuclear energy in South Africa is a hotly contested issue — so much so that a court recently ruled against the government’s plans to issue a contract for the construction of eight new nuclear power stations. The ruling appeared to have delivered
A South African court has ruled that critical aspects of the country’s nuclear procurement process are illegal and unconstitutional. The outcome is a significant setback for a network of entities that had been aggressively