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As COP26 kicks off in Scotland, there’s a renewed focus on efforts to limit global warming and ensure a ‘just transition’ away from dirty fossil fuels. It may look like a no-brainer, but from an investment point of view at least, there’s little clarity on who will be the ultimate winners of this green uprising

Free State the big winner after widespread grid saturation.

Says Eskom has enough mobile generators for the elections.

South Africa holds municipal elections on 1 November 2021. Africa Check takes a look at claims made in the Democratic Alliance’s election manifesto about the party’s achievements and challenges faced elsewhere.

Is a nuclear nightmare on the cards for South Africa? The infamous Koeberg plant is losing its senior technicians, sparking panic at Eskom.

In the upcoming municipal elections South African citizens will elect representatives for district, metropolitan and local municipal councils across the country’s nine provinces. The Democratic Alliance (DA) is the largest opposition party in South Africa. It won a majority in 19 municipalities in the 2016 municipal elections and governs South Africa’s legislative capital of Cape Town.

"Eskom found that there was a deviation from procedure that led to the incident and placed managers involved under precautionary suspension."

Karpowership Hundreds of pages of "briefing notes" reveal bidders in the emergency power programme warned the government rules would favour fossil fuels and leave renewables out in the cold.  Nonsensical rules, they charged, would also result in higher electricity prices for consumers. As they predicted, the cheapest price was R1.46/kWh, more than double the 62c/kWh that Eskom secured in 2018 for solar- and wind-powered IPPs. When the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy launched its urg...

Renewables supplied only a third of Africa’s electricity demand growth (1) Content provided by Last updated: 3 hours ago An analysis of global electricity revealed that wind and solar showed resilient growth in 2020 despite the pandemic, forcing a record fall in global coal power. The Global Electricity Review (https://bit.ly/3nMqxBv) published by energy think tank Ember (...

An analysis of global electricity revealed that wind and solar showed resilient growth in 2020 despite the pandemic, forcing a record fall in global coal power. The Global Electricity Review published by energy think tank Ember analysed electricity data from every country in the world to give the first accurate view of the global electricity transition in 2020.  It revealed that almost a tenth of global electricity was generated by wind and solar in 2020. Morocco and Kenya are the clear leader...