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Eskom backs Necom-level consultation on use of electricity tokens to upscale virtual wheeling
Eskom Distribution MD Monde Bala has signalled the utility’s willingness to consider the integration of an Electricity Credit Token (ECT) financial instrument to accelerate the implementation of a...
Impact of curtailment on BW7 under discussion
The Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) reports that it is engaging with Eskom on its newly released curtailment addendum to the latest Generation Connection Capacity Assessment (GCCA 2025) –...
SA green hydrogen developers urged to bid for €270m German grant funding
South African developers of mature green hydrogen or derivatives projects are potentially eligible for nonrefundable grant funding being extended under Germany’s €270-million Power-to-X (PtX)...
Energy Vault, consortium enter licensing deal for gravity storage solution
Grid-scale energy storage solutions company Energy Vault has signed a licensing and royalty agreement with a South African consortium, established with the aim of deploying the NYSE-listed...
Energy Council welcomes IRP extension, calls for strong reform message in SoNA
Energy Council CEO James Mackay has welcomed the decision of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy to extend the comment period for the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2023 by a month...
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...
Next battery sites being identified amid bidding at eight substations in North West province
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...
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...
SA’s draft plan signals renewables investments retreat as the rest of the world powers ahead
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, 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...
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,...
Transmission 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...
Grid constraint likely to translate to a renewables price premium, Magoro warns
Independent Power Producer (IPP) Office head Bernard Magoro has signalled that the projects bid during the current seventh renewables procurement bid window could carry a price premium, as bidders...
Sasol, Topsoe appoint CEO to lead new sustainable aviation fuels JV
Sasol and Topsoe have appointed Shell’s Jan Toschka as CEO of their recently established sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) JV. Toschka is described as a seasoned leader in the aviation fuels...
Marokane to officially report for duty as Eskom CEO on March 1
Eskom has announced that Dan Marokane – who was named group CEO on December 8, almost a full year after André de Ruyter formally resigned – will assume office on March 1, 2024. Previously, Eskom...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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