The National Energy Regulator of South Africa will release a consultation paper, possibly next week, which will formally initiate the public-participation process required to secure the regulator’s concurrence on two Section 34 Ministerial determinatio…
Nersa aiming to grant concurrence on Ministerial determinations within three months Read More »
South Africa’s biggest labour federation said private pensions must be used alongside those of government workers as part of a plan to rescue the state power company from crippling debt and spur economic growth. The Congress of South African Trade Unio…
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) expects a plan that it’s proposing to save Eskom Holdings from its debt burden to be ready within weeks, said the labor federation’s parliamentary coordinator. The labor group, an ally of the ruling A…
Cosatu expects its Eskom plan to be completed within weeks Read More »
Eskom’s megapower station Medupi is suffocating South Africa in more ways than one: It is not just a financial black hole; it is also a health and environmental catastrophe. And the installation of crucial technology to make it less poisonous has once …
Medupi’s killer fumes: The story of a power station’s missing air scrubbers Read More »
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) on Monday hosted the last of its public hearings on Eskom’s regulatory clearing account (RCA) application for the 2018/19 financial year, with various organisations having expressed their opposition…
Industry strongly opposed to further tariff increases for Eskom Read More »
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe announced on Wednesday that the Section 34 Ministerial Determinations required to give effect to the Integrated Resource Plan 2019 had been finalised and were currently serving before the National En…
South Africa’s Energy War Room, a grouping of the main cabinet ministers responsible for the power industry, will meet for the first time this week since being reconstituted by President Cyril Ramaphosa in December as the country battles an electricity…
South Africa’s ‘Energy War Room’ to meet for first time Read More »
Ailing power utility Eskom urgently needs more cash to stabilise its ballooning debt pile with the funds coming from a rise in tariffs or new equity, new CE Andre de Ruyter told lawmakers on Tuesday. Eskom, which supplies 90% of South Africa’s power bu…
Eskom needs cash injection to avoid debt crisis – CEO Read More »
Organised business has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to use his upcoming State of the Nation Address (SoNa) to announce that the regulations needed to enable “private sector energy generation at scale” will be put in place urgently by Mineral Resourc…
A proposal by South Africa’s biggest labor-union federation to rescue debt-stricken Eskom Holdings with government workers’ pensions would amount to little more than a shifting of contingent liabilities, according to BNP Paribas South Africa. The Congr…
Cosatu’s Eskom plan doesn’t diminish State’s liability, BNP says Read More »
