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To carefully balance the dire need to ease pressure on the national electricity grid, with an increased demand for skilled resources to complete, run and maintain emergency and alternative generation capacity projects, labour brokers can be instrumental.

Pathways exist to contain and resolve load shedding, and kickstart the country’s green industrialisation and decarbonisation ambitions.

If load shedding is tackled realistically, purposefully and urgently with a coordinated emergency plan partnering Eskom and civil society, it is technically and financially possible to end the problem within 24 months. 

Eskom will be the primary purchaser of power generated by the wind farm, which independent power producer Red Rocket says will generate enough energy to ‘satisfy the energy needs of roughly 49,200 households every year’. Eskom will be the primary purchaser of power generated by the wind far...

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy officially launched the Roggeveld Wind Farm in the Northern Cape. Sutherland and surrounding areas will are about to reap the benefits of the new wind energy programme.

On 6 April 2022 – Six months after the announcement of preferred bidders for Bid Window 5 – the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy ("DMRE") issued the request for proposals...

THE Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, has assured Parliament that the department was on the verge of finalising agreements with preferred projects to bring more megawatts to the power grid.

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe has announced a wave of additional generation projects in an attempt to resolve the country’s energy crisis.

A look at some of the positive milestones SA has achieved.

And expects further significant project awards.