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Pioneering 195 MW solar plant to sell clean electricity to multiple customers across the country
South African independent power producer the SOLA Group has started construction on a pioneering 195 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in the Free State, which will wheel and sell clean electricity...
Red Rocket confirms initial 500 MW of interest in 2 000 MW virtual wheeling renewables scheme
Independent power producer (IPP) Red Rocket reports that it has signed up customers for 500 MW of the 2 000 MW of capacity it aims to deploy over the coming three years as part of an innovative...
Tender out for Durban terminal berths expansion
The Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has issued a tender for the reconstruction, deepening and lengthening of three berths at the Pier 2 North Quay of the currently congested Durban...
Sasol’s Mabelane to head board of Eskom’s unbundled grid company
The inaugural board of directors of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA), which was announced by the Eskom board on Tuesday, will be chaired by Priscillah Mabelane, who is also...
1 000 MW gas-to-power cap placed on Richards Bay for first gas procurement round
While ‘location agnostic’, South Africa’s inaugural 2 000 MW gas-to-power (GtP) procurement round is limiting the development of facilities in the City of uMhlathuze, where KwaZulu-Natal’s...
Work under way to identify next battery sites amid bidding at eight North West substations
Independent Power Producer Office head Bernard Magoro reports that work is under way to identify substation sites for the upcoming third Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Producer...
Grid constraints cast shadow over South Africa’s seventh renewables bid window
South Africa’s grid constraints are continuing to cast a shadow over the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), the seventh bidding round for which was...
Fast-growing ENGIE South Africa will consider grid investments under right conditions
Global independent power company ENGIE, which is prioritising the South African electricity market for significant organic and acquisitive growth, is also open to participating in grid investments...
Busy week for DMRE as it hosts IPP bidders conferences and IRP workshop
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) and the Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) have a busy week ahead, with three virtual bidders conferences to be hosted over Wednesday and...
World powers ahead with renewables as South Africa’s draft plan signals pullback
While South Africa’s latest draft electricity plan is signalling a pullback in renewables investments for the period to 2030 relative to the prevailing policy, the rest of the world is powering...
Preferred bidder selected to build and operate Richards Bay LNG terminal
South Africa’s State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has announced that it has selected a public-private consortium as the preferred bidder to develop and operate a liquefied natural...
No plan yet for public hearings into gas-heavy draft IRP 2023
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has belatedly released the background technical information that has been used to inform the assumptions included in the draft Integrated...
Sasol’s Mabelane to head board at Eskom’s unbundled grid company, NTCSA
The inaugural board of directors of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA), which was announced by the Eskom board on Tuesday, will be chaired by Priscillah Mabelane, who is also...
Ramokgopa seeks to unlock private finance for 6 000 km of new grid in coming three years
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the current plan for rolling out grid infrastructure, particularly in the coming three years, is insufficient to end loadshedding and should, thus,...
Busa warns that lack of detail in IRP 2023 makes it impossible to assess plan’s credibility
Business Unity South Africa (Busa) will approach the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to secure the technoeconomic information that has been used to inform the assumptions...
Four utility-scale battery projects worth R10bn selected following inaugural public tender
The South African government has selected preferred bidders for the development of four utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the Northern Cape, with a combined investment...
Finding immediate steel alternatives a concern as AMSA prepares to wind down longs unit
ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has indicated that it will enter discussions with buyers of its noncommodity long-steel products in an effort to limit the disruption that is set to arise because...
Graphics confirm how ‘devastatingly bad’ loadshedding has been in 2023
South Africans are already painfully aware that 2023 has been a devastating year for power disruptions, with the latest bout of Stage 6 loadshedding having provided yet another traumatic reminder...
South Africa moves to procure 5GW of renewables, 2GW of gas-to-power, 615 MW of battery storage
The South African government has released three requests for proposals (RFPs) for new electricity generation and storage capacity, including 5 000 MW of new wind and solar, 2 000 MW of gas-to-power...
South Africa launches renewables procurement round for 5 000 MW of wind and solar
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has released the much-anticipated and delayed seventh bid window (BW7) of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme...
South Africa to release 2 500 MW nuclear RFP by March, despite electricity plan review
The South African government will publish a request for proposals (RFP) for 2 500 MW of new nuclear capacity by March 2024, following the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s)...
Koeberg Unit 2 to return in Sept, heightening risk of both units being out simultaneously
Eskom generation head Bheki Nxumalo has indicated that an extended outage at Koeberg Unit 2, which begins on December 11, is currently expected to continue until September 2024, increasing the...
IRP update approved by Cabinet includes new coal decommissioning schedule
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that Cabinet has approved the release of an updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for public comment and also confirms that the document contains...
Seifsa warns of dire consequences if govt fails to intervene on AMSA longs closure
The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) is calling on government to take urgent and decisive action to support the domestic steel sector following ArcelorMittal...
Renewables bodies await publication of Eskom’s curtailment framework
The associations representing the wind and solar sectors as well as independent power producers (IPPs) more generally are eagerly awaiting a proposed curtailment addendum to Eskom’s Grid Connection...
Aveng shifts ‘locus’ to Melbourne as it names new CEO
The locus of JSE-listed construction group Aveng is set to shift to Australia following the appointment of Scott Cummins, who currently leads McConnell Dowell, to succeed Sean Flanagan as CEO, as...
New $1.8bn-plus concessional loan package signed to support JET-IP
South Africa has confirmed the signing of three new policy loan agreements – worth more than $1.8-billion – in support of the country’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP), the...
Eskom to add synchronous condensers to network
Eskom is preparing to introduce 11 synchronous condensers – seven new and four repurposed – across its transmission system to support grid stability as the penetration of variable renewable-energy...
Electricity reform bears fruit with 1 185 generators now registered with Nersa
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) reports that it registered a further 98 generation facilities – with a combined capacity of 908 MW and an investment value of R17.3-billion –...
Spares deal expected to boost performance of straddle carriers at congested DCT Pier 2
Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has concluded a seven-year agreement with four original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for the supply of critical spares for equipment across its terminals, including...
Report poses serious questions about effectiveness of scrap export ban
Serious questions about the effectiveness and desirability of South Africa’s prevailing scrap export ban have been raise in a new report, which calls for its immediate lifting unless evidence can...
Two more solar projects from delayed BW5 set to begin construction in early 2024
Two 75-MW apiece solar photovoltaic (PV) projects bid under the much-delayed Bid Window Five (BW5) of South Africa’s public renewables procurement programme have officially advanced to commercial...
Pioneering 195 MW solar plant to sell clean electricity to multiple customers nationwide
South African independent power producer the SOLA Group has started construction on a pioneering 195 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in the Free State, which will wheel and sell clean electricity...
Red Rocket confirms initial 500 MW of interest in 2 000 MW virtual wheeling renewables scheme
Independent power producer (IPP) Red Rocket reports that it has signed up customers for 500 MW of the 2 000 MW of capacity it aims to deploy over the coming three years as part of an innovative...
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