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The Presidency does not anticipate that Eskom’s move to reserve scarce grid capacity for independent power producers (IPPs) participating in public procurement bidding rounds will disrupt the more than 130 private IPP projects being advanced outside of those processes to supply private consumers. Speaking during a briefing convened to report back on the reforms implemented under Operation Vulindlela, including those undertaken to address South Africa’s loadshedding crisis, the Presid...

The Presidency does not anticipate that Eskom’s move to reserve scarce grid capacity for independent power producers (IPPs) participating in public procurement bidding rounds will disrupt the more than 130 private IPP projects being advanced outside of those processes to supply private consumers. Speaking during a briefing convened to report back on the reforms implemented under Operation Vulindlela, including those undertaken to address South Africa’s loadshedding crisis, the Presid...

The Energy Regulator has approved that the National Transmission Company of

With insufficient grid capacity having been identified as the main constraint to the public procurement of the 28 GW of new electricity capacity allowed for by 2030 under various Ministerial determinations, IPP Office head Bernard Magoro reports that several new options are being considered to unlock existing grid capacity, including accepting some level of curtailment. Addressing the South African National Energy Association’s annual general meeting, Magoro reported that a cost-benefit an...

Top ANC officials may be stomping their feet over Eskom, but the ruling party still has no plan on how to resolve — or even tackle — the energy crisis.

The interventions made by President Cyril Ramaphosa to deregulate the energy sector and include the private sector to play a major role in ending the 14-year-old electricity crisis are set to yield an energy supply of about 1,950MW in the next three months. At worst, Eskom faces a shortage of u...

With the national utility Eskom recently implementing stage six load shedding, H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a five-step action plan to increase power generation, stabilize the grid and end load shedding once and for all in South Africa.

Government is lobbying the private sector to avail technical and project management skills as it mobilises the biggest multi-department cooperation effort since the Covid pandemic to implement President Cyril Rampahosa's bold energy crisis plan.

One of my biggest concerns as a young person in South Africa is that we may be running out of time to address the climate crisis and curb global heating. Are we not squandering our chance for a just transition to renewable energy?