The city intends seeking permission from the courts for an expedited hearing on its energy case to allow it to buy energy from IPPs.

As power blackouts persist, minister Gwede Mantashe says government will allow IPPs to bring Window 4 capacity on stream earlier.

Load-shedding was not only one of the top local trending Google searches of 2019, but also of the decade.

Mobile operators are investing hundreds of millions of rands to mitigate the effects of Eskom’s rolling blackouts.

The sector says if the restrictions were lifted, government could buy that additional energy at a tariff it was prepared to pay.

Energy minister Gwede Mantashe gives the province the green light to explore independent power producers for energy needs.

It would be a mistake to think that load-shedding is the only issue relating to power, says Nadia Veeran-Patel, manager: Cyber Resilience at ContinuitySA.

The company begins the construction of its Karusa and Soetwater wind farms, with an installed capacity of 140MW each.

The industry believes clean energy can help to stop the latest bout of load-shedding introduced by Eskom.

The province is set to play a major role as the country forges ahead with its renewable energy push.

“We’re getting out of coal and switching to renewable energy,” says Akinwumi Adesina, the bank’s president.

CEO of SAWEA disappointed with government’s delays in asserting policy for the renewables energy sector.