Eskom reports maintenance progress as big users express concern

South Africa’s Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG) has raised concerns that, despite lower than expected electricity demand and power buy-backs, electricity utility Eskom is failing to fully deal with its maintenance backlog, which could...

Carbon capture could deal with energy-intensive mining industry’s challenge

More than 90 % of South Africa’s electricity is generated from coal, resulting in the release of about 440-million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year.

Current power price path will squeeze SA competitiveness

South Africa’s international competitiveness will increasingly be dampened by the rapid rate at which the domestic electricity price is rising, Energy Intensive User Group chairperson Mike Rossouw said on the second day of the Africa Energy...

Energy-intensive users prepared to reduce demand

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Power utility Eskom’s biggest industrial customers, mainly mining and manufacturing companies, on Tuesday indicated that they would scale down demand to prevent rolling blackouts if the country’s electricity...

Energy intensive users prepared to reduce demand

Power utility Eskom’s biggest industrial customers, mainly mining and manufacturing companies, on Tuesday indicated that they would scale down demand to prevent rolling blackouts if the country’s electricity situation deteriorated. Eskom this...

Xstrata-Merafe JV to boost output at Boshoek plant

The Xstrata-Merafe joint venture (JV) aims to increase output at the Boshoek ferrochrome smelter complex near Rustenburg by between between 10% and 12% by 2012, operations manager Francois de Wet said on Tuesday. The plant currently produces...

Nov deadline set for S Africa's minerals beneficiation framework

South Africa would finalise its consultations with stakeholders on a new minerals beneficiation framework, which was recently approved by Cabinet, by November, Advocate Sandile Nogxina, currently a special adviser to Minerals Development Minister...

SA’s power prices approach affordability ‘tipping point’

South Africa’s electricity prices, which have more or less doubled from an average real level of 25c/kWh in 2008 to the current level of 50 c/kWh, were approaching an affordability “tipping point”, the Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG)...

Price path warnings as SA loses cheapest power spot to Canada

Canada has surpassed South Africa as the cheapest global provider of electricity, a new survey by energy cost management consultancy NUS Consulting shows. The ‘2011 International Electricity Report and Price Survey’, which analyses 16...

Mines not saving power, says Eskom as it unveils compulsory plan

State power utility Eskom has moved to counter assertions that the proposed power conservation programme (PCP) – which would initially target mandatory savings from South Africa’s top 300 or so energy-intensive businesses – would be applied...