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The utility is proposing to build four natural gas combustion turbines to generate electricity during peak periods of grid demand.

By Iddi Yire/Else Appiah-Osei Accra, June 14, GNA – Mr Samuel Atta Akyea, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Mines and Energy, has reiterated the Government’s commitment to addressing Ghana’s energy challenges. “The Nana Akufo-Addo-led Government is aware of the critical role the Energy Sector plays in the economy of Ghana and is focused on addressing the challenges.” Mr Atta Akyea stated on Wednesday at a news conference...

Early efforts in California, Colorado, and New York offer lessons to get started.

The minister doesnt really have any significant powers but there are interventions he can make between government departments to remove impediments to Eskom’s implementation plan, says energy analyst Ruse Moleshe.

How do we balance a reliable supply of electricity and ending load-shedding with the critical issue of climate change and moving to cleaner energy?

It was “inevitable” that South Africa would have to use powerships to help deal with the country’s power supply crisis, Electricity Minister (in the Presidency) Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told delegates in his closing keynote address at the Enlit Africa conference in Cape Town in Thursday afternoon. Loadshedding – scheduled rotating power cuts imposed by State-owned national electricity utility Eskom – was, he said, “the single most important challenge facing us&rd...

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, on Tuesday told Parliament that government will open a bid in July to procure additional renewable energy.

Minister of Energy Gwede Mantashe has moved to assure MPs that the continued use of nuclear energy will not lead to any disaster.

STURGIS, S.D. – A Utah company is planning a 100-megawatt Solar Energy Facility to be built east of Sturgis, off of Alkali Road. The proposed facility is in response to Black Hills Energy’s call for more renewable energy resources. Balance Rock Power of Moab, Utah, says the renewable energy it produces should likely offset reliance […]

Professor Sampson Mamphweli of the South African National Energy Development Institute says bringing in additional energy capacity will give Eskom an opportunity to fix its currently failing coal fleet.