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National Treasury has withheld July equitable share transfers from 69 municipalities over poor financial governance, including failure to honour payment arrangements with creditors such as Eskom. Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso notes Johannesburg alone owes Eskom about R3.7-billion, with Treasury requiring signed payment agreements with creditors like Eskom before releasing funds.
Virtual power plants shown to ease grid pressureEnergy specialists say virtual power plants (VPPs) coordinating geysers, solar and batteries could defer grid infrastructure spending, with Plentify CEO Jon Kornik noting Deye battery capacity deployed in South Africa is twice the size of Eskom's planned R11-billion battery storage project. Speakers at a July 8 webinar called for policy reform to extend Eskom's demand-response programme beyond geysers to batteries.
Eskom-linked projects feature in hydropower and nuclear waste plansThe International Hydropower Association's 2026 outlook notes Eskom and France's Agence Française de Développement signed a €6.5-million grant in 2025 to support the 1 500 MW Tubatse Pumped Hydro Storage project. Separately, the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute is developing a R2-billion interim storage facility for spent fuel from Eskom's Koeberg nuclear power station, targeted for 2030.
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At Babcock’s Jet Park in Boksburg, Johannesburg, Babcock launched its new role as the preferred partner of Lincoln Electric welding products across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Hendrik du Toit, MD for...
The South African Local Government Association (Salga) Gauteng calls for a fair, transparent and collaborative intergovernmental process to resolve the decision by the National Treasury to withhold...
National Treasury’s decision to withhold the July equitable share transfer from 69 municipalities follows more than a decade of ignored Auditor-General warnings on municipal deterioration and...
A Free State commercial farming operation Belle Rive, spanning more than 2 000 ha, has appointed solar energy company RenEnergy Africa as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)...
Buoyed by several significant milestones that the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI) has achieved over the past year, CEO Riedewaan Bakardien is upbeat its prospects for shaping...
Buoyed by several significant milestones that the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI) has achieved over the past year, CEO Riedewaan Bakardien is upbeat its prospects for shaping...
Infrastructure South Africa (ISA) has raised concern about the high level of tender cancellations, which it believes is having a negative impact on the construction market, as well as on meeting...
Virtual power plants (VPPs) have been tested and are being proven in South Africa, and their widespread use could reduce the need to build some new transmission and distribution infrastructure...
With South Africa’s energy sector at a defining moment, with a dual imperative to ensure energy security and a credible transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy, this requires collaboration...
State-owned Eskom says it has reached an important milestone in its nationwide Load Reduction Eradication Programme, with five of the country's nine provinces now free from load reduction. To date,...
National power utility Eskom and water utility Rand Water will start on Phase 2 of their joint planned infrastructure maintenance programme from 07:00 on July 17. The work will conclude at 19:00 on...
Hundreds of supply chain professionals from across Africa and around the world will convene in Cape Town this month to learn, share knowledge and network at the annual SAPICS Conference. Now in its...
National Treasury is temporarily withholding the July equitable share transfers to 70 municipalities across all nine provinces in an effort to “instil fiscal discipline and ensure that public money...
Zimbabwe's State power utility, ZESA, said on Tuesday it had restored power to most of the country after a fault on a key transmission line caused a nationwide blackout on Monday evening, while...
The world is facing a series of interlinked crises, with economic fluctuations, regional and global conflicts, resource constraints and growing environmental risks, and these disruptions are...
South Africa's electricity market reforms have reached a critical point, with the regulations now being finalised by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) set to determine whether...
The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) has welcomed the decision by Moody's Ratings to affirm the city's long-term issuer rating at Ba3, while revising the outlook to positive, following the conclusion of...
Section 34A of the Electricity Regulation Amendment Act requires that the independent transmission system operator (ITSO), as the licensed transmitter, control the network it operates, says...
Being a premier base metals-focused business with strong growth potential is the vision for South32 of new CEO Matt Daley. “We've got around 55% production growth over the next handful of years in...
Lobby group AfriForum has launched a formal Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application targeting the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), following...
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