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Terence Creamer

Terence Creamer

Terence Creamer is the Editor of Engineering News and a Deputy Editor for Mining Weekly. He also has editorial responsibility for Polity.org.za and Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa.

By Terence Creamer

Eskom Distribution MD Monde Bala

Eskom backs Necom-level consultation on use of electricity tokens to upscale virtual wheeling

16th February 2024

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... 


Wind farm

Impact of curtailment on BW7 under discussion

16th February 2024

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) –... 


Artist impression of a green hydrogen facility

SA green hydrogen developers urged to bid for €270m German grant funding

16th February 2024

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)... 


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Reform momentum

16th February 2024

From an economic perspective, the most important signal provided by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address was that the reform agenda remains in place, and that it will be... 


Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Ramokgopa denies President’s pre-Stage 6 SoNA assertions caused embarrassment and insists loadshedding ‘corner has been turned’

11th February 2024

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has move to defend the statement made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on Thursday night that “the end of... 


Energy Vault, consortium enter licensing  deal for gravity storage solution

Energy Vault, consortium enter licensing deal for gravity storage solution

9th February 2024

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... 


A road fright truck on the N3 corridor

Dedicated freight lanes and restricted truck operating hours mooted in draft plan to shift cargo back to rail

9th February 2024

The Department of Transport (DoT) is canvasing as series of interventions aimed at attracting freight back to South Africa’s struggling rail system from road, which has emerged as the country’s... 


Power line and substation

Independent transmission project office to be set up to procure new grid using ‘build, operate, transfer’ model

9th February 2024

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that government plans to establish an independent transmission project office, located either at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) or... 


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Worrying outlier

9th February 2024

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) most recent report on the electricity sector includes a troubling section on Africa’s recent underperformance in this regard. In the section, the authors... 


President Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa moots ‘innovative investment models’ for grid as he reiterates support for power and logistics reform

8th February 2024

President Cyril Ramaphosa used his final State of the Nation Address ahead of upcoming elections to reiterate government’s commitment to reforms in the country’s failing power and logistics... 


Energy Council CEO James Mackay

Energy Council welcomes IRP extension, calls for strong reform message in SoNA

6th February 2024

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... 


TNPA recently selected a preferred bidder for a 25-year LNG terminal concession in the Port of Richards Bay's South Dunes precinct

1 000 MW gas-to-power cap placed on Richards Bay for first gas procurement round

2nd February 2024

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... 


Aerial view of Eskom's Hex battery energy storage facility

Next battery sites being identified amid bidding at eight substations in North West province

2nd February 2024

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... 


ENGIE South Africa believes there is a compelling case for converting its diesel-fired peaking stations, including the 335 MW Dedisa plant pictured, to gas as part of initial gas-to-power bidding round

Fast-growing ENGIE South Africa will consider grid investments under right conditions

2nd February 2024

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... 


Grid unlocked

Grid unlocked

2nd February 2024

As the South African government seeks to re-establish some momentum behind the public procurement of new independent power producer (IPP) generation and storage, much focus will be on how bidders... 


Artist impression of a green hydrogen facility

South African green hydrogen developers urged to bid for €270m in German grant funding to close project ‘bankability gap’

29th January 2024

South African developers of mature green hydrogen or derivatives projects are potentially eligible for non-refundable grant funding being extended under Germany’s €270-million Power-to-X (PtX)... 


IEA executive director Fatih Birol

SA’s draft plan signals renewables investments retreat as the rest of the world powers ahead

26th January 2024

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... 


The Port of Richards Bay, which is currently a coal export hub, has been earmarked for gas infrastructure

Preferred bidder selected to build, operate Richards Bay LNG terminal

26th January 2024

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... 


Lineworkers on a high-voltage powerline

Ramokgopa seeks to unlock private finance for 6 000 km of new grid in coming three years

26th January 2024

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,... 


Big procurement year

Big procurement year

26th January 2024

The coming year is poised to be the most active ever for the public procurement of new electricity generation capacity. Besides shepherding the already-procured projects to financial close –... 


Independent Power Producer Office head Bernard Magoro

Transmission grid constraints cast shadow over South Africa’s seventh renewables bid window

26th January 2024

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... 


IPP Office head Bernard Magoro

Grid constraint likely to translate to a renewables price premium, Magoro warns

24th January 2024

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... 


Jan Toschka

Sasol, Topsoe appoint CEO to lead new sustainable aviation fuels JV

22nd January 2024

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... 


Dan Marokane

Marokane to officially report for duty as Eskom CEO on March 1

19th January 2024

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... 


SOLA Group CEO Dom Wills

Pioneering 195 MW solar plant to sell clean electricity to multiple customers across the country

19th January 2024

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... 


A turbine at sunrise at Red Rocket's Roggeveld Wind Farm

Red Rocket confirms initial 500 MW of interest in 2 000 MW virtual wheeling renewables scheme

19th January 2024

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... 


The Durban Container Terminal

Tender out for Durban terminal berths expansion

19th January 2024

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... 


The PetroSA GTL refinery in Mossel Bay

Shrugging off sanctions risk, PetroSA aims to seal deal with GazpromBank by April to resuscitate GTL refinery

19th January 2024

South Africa’s PetroSA aims to make a final investment decision (FID) by April on a project designed to support the resumption of production at the mothballed gas-to-liquids (GTL) refinery in... 


Priscillah Mabelane

Sasol’s Mabelane to head board of Eskom’s unbundled grid company

19th January 2024

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... 


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Gas lock-in

19th January 2024

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail,” the quote, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reads. What happens, however, when your plan is a failure? The misnamed draft Integrated Resource Plan... 


Busy week for DMRE as it hosts IPP bidders conferences and IRP workshop

Busy week for DMRE as it hosts IPP bidders conferences and IRP workshop

15th January 2024

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... 


Priscillah Mabelane

Sasol’s Mabelane to head board at Eskom’s unbundled grid company, NTCSA

9th January 2024

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 energy and environment desk head Happy Khambule

Busa warns that lack of detail in IRP 2023 makes it impossible to assess plan’s credibility

8th January 2024

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

Four utility-scale battery projects worth R10bn selected following inaugural public tender

15th December 2023

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... 


A steel section being made

Finding immediate steel alternatives a concern as AMSA prepares to wind down longs unit

15th December 2023

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... 


Candle

Graphics confirm how ‘devastatingly bad’ loadshedding has been in 2023

15th December 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... 


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No seamless extension

15th December 2023

The Koeberg saga, much like South Africa’s ongoing efforts to tackle loadshedding decisively, hardly ever fails to disappoint. Having missed deadline after deadline, Africa’s only nuclear power... 


South Africa moves to procure 5GW of renewables, 2GW of gas-to-power, 615 MW of battery storage

South Africa moves to procure 5GW of renewables, 2GW of gas-to-power, 615 MW of battery storage

14th December 2023

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... 


The Klipheuwel wind farm

South Africa launches renewables procurement round for 5 000 MW of wind and solar

14th December 2023

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... 


Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

South Africa to release 2 500 MW nuclear RFP by March, despite electricity plan review

12th December 2023

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)... 


Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni

Ntshavheni confirms draft IRP 2023 contains ‘significant’ revisions, but offers no clarity on consultation process

11th December 2023

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has confirmed that the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) approved by Cabinet for public comment includes two time horizons as well as significant... 


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