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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

IFC VP for Africa Sérgio Pimenta

IFC ready to support private grid investment in SA

11th August 2023

The World Bank’s private sector financier, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has indicated a willingness to fund public–private partnerships (PPPs) aimed at expanding and strengthening... 


Power lines running above informal settlement in Cape Town

South Africa urged to elevate universal electricity access to status of education to fight extreme poverty

11th August 2023

Calls are growing for government to overhaul its free basic energy (FBE) scheme amid indications that fewer than a quarter of qualifying indigent households are benefiting from the 50-kWh-a-month... 


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Where’s the urgency?

11th August 2023

The Energy Regulator’s decision to transfer the transmission facilities licence to the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTC) is indeed a “milestone”, as was highlighted by the National... 


Presidency says progress being made to increase grant funding for Just Energy Transition Investment Plan

Presidency says progress being made to increase grant funding for Just Energy Transition Investment Plan

8th August 2023

The Presidency is exploring several avenues for increasing the grant component in the financing of South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP), following broad-based stakeholder... 


Power lines with Koeberg in the background

Eskom system operator doesn’t foresee grid instability should both Koeberg units be offline simultaneously

4th August 2023

Eskom’s system operator GM, Isabel Fick, does not foresee the Western Cape power grid being materially destabilised if both of Koeberg’s two nuclear reactors are out of service simultaneously later... 


IPP Office head Bernard Magoro

Grid still seen as key risk for upcoming renewables round despite reduction in govt guarantee

4th August 2023

The government-default component of the government guarantees extended to the independent power producers (IPPs) that will be selected to build new solar and wind projects under the upcoming... 


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Post-truth energy politics

4th August 2023

In any healthy democracy, debate is not only vital but should be encouraged. However, a healthy democracy also requires that the contestation of ideas must be based on a common set of agreed facts,... 


The August 1 meeting of South African Presidency and various government departments, with Business Unity South Africa, Business for South Africa, and Business Leadership South Africa

Presidency, business call for expedited passage during current Parliamentary term of Bill overhauling electricity market

2nd August 2023

The Presidency and organised business have called for the passage of the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Bill to be expedited within the sixth Parliament, following a meeting on August 1 to... 


The Secunda complex

In appeal against air-quality decision, Sasol again makes case for load-based emission limit

1st August 2023

Energy and chemicals group Sasol has moved to formally appeal a decision of the National Air Quality Officer (NAQO) to decline its application to have its Secunda boilers regulated using a... 


President Cyril Ramaphosa

One-year progress report says rooftop installations have doubled since start of Energy Action Plan

31st July 2023

Despite ongoing loadshedding, President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved to highlight some of the implementation progress under the Energy Action Plan (EAP), which marked its first anniversary in late... 


Eskom power station

Eskom Generation mulling concession models as it seeks to improve coal plant performance

28th July 2023

Eskom’s generation business is currently weighing various concession models as the utility assesses ways to improve the performance of its breakdown-prone coal-fired power stations in a context of... 


A railway line

US agency sees Lobito rail corridor helping to diversify critical minerals supply chains

28th July 2023

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO Scott Nathan has reiterated the American government’s interest in helping to finance the Lobito rail corridor, linking the copper and... 


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Renewables rhythm

28th July 2023

Once lauded as an international benchmark, South Africa’s Renewable Energy independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has struggled to rediscover its rhythm after being disrupted... 


BUSA VP Adrian Gore

CEOs from 115 companies pledge to help rebuild South Africa

27th July 2023

CEOs from over 115 leading corporations operating in South Africa and which collectively employ 1.2-million people and have a combined market value R11-trillion, have formally pledged to help the... 


Boegoebaai

Three consortia selected to bid for greenfield Boegoebaai port and rail project

25th July 2023

South Africa’s State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has shortlisted three consortia to participate in an upcoming bidding process to design, fund and construct a greenfield... 


Report highlights the relative materials intensity of technologies required for the net-zero transition, such as offshore wind turbines

Mining, refining, smelting investment of up to $4tr by 2030 needed to support net-zero shift – report

21st July 2023

As the world accelerates the deployment of climate technologies in support of the net-zero transition, there is a risk that materials supply might not scale at the required speed, a new McKinsey &... 


BESS system being tested

Grid storage uptake in South Africa lacks ‘direction or momentum’

21st July 2023

A new report published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) highlights that grid storage has yet to gain “direction or momentum” in South Africa, despite a growing... 


Power lines

Updated loadshedding code includes up to 16 stages to reduce grid-collapse risk

21st July 2023

A new and updated edition of the loadshedding code of practice, which includes up to 16 stages of loadshedding, has been finalised by and expert group and delivered to the National Energy Regulator... 


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Time to act

21st July 2023

Three recent international publications have underlined just how urgent it is for South Africa to respond to the challenges and opportunities being presented by the strong growth in demand for... 


Battery storage

Deadline for battery storage programme bids postponed to early next month

14th July 2023

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has postponed the bid submission date for the public procurement of battery energy storage systems (BESS) from July 5 to August 2. The... 


Solar panels and power lines

Industry role-players express misgivings about Eskom’s ‘onerous’ new grid access rules

14th July 2023

Eskom’s newly released Interim Grid Capacity Allocation Rules (IGCAR), formulated in response to surging demand for grid access in a context of acute grid scarcity, have received a cool reception... 


Enpower Trading CEO James Beatty

Energy trading firm believes revenue-neutral wheeling model can help curb municipal off-grid flight

14th July 2023

Regulator-licensed South African electricity trader Enpower Trading is promoting wheeling and trading over municipal networks as a way of combatting the trend of “off-grid flight”, which poses a... 


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Shift in focus

14th July 2023

While it is far too early to declare victory over loadshedding, with many perils still to overcome across many fronts, Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is correct in wanting to shift... 


A railway line

US agency sees Lobito rail corridor helping to diversify critical minerals supply chains

12th July 2023

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO Scott Nathan has reiterated the American government’s interest in helping to finance the Lobito rail corridor, linking the copper and... 


Solar farm

Critical minerals market has doubled in five years, IEA report shows

11th July 2023

The market for critical minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and wind turbines has doubled over the past five years, reaching $320-billion in 2022, and is expected to continue to growth... 


Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsh Ramokgopa

As cold front hits, Ramokgopa expects loadshedding intensity to remain in check as attention turns to reducing frequency of cuts

9th July 2023

Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the first part of the Energy Action Plan’s (EAP’s) two-part goal of reducing the intensity of loadshedding has been largely achieved as the plan... 


Solar panels in front of Komati's cooling towers

Eskom to launch solar, battery tenders in 2024 as part of Komati ‘repowering’

7th July 2023

Eskom reports that concessional funding of $497-million secured for the repowering and repurposing of the Komati coal power station, in Mpumalanga, is expected to become effective at the end of... 


Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler

Sasol, Topsoe form JV to accelerate global production of sustainable aviation fuel

7th July 2023

South African energy and chemicals group Sasol and Danish decarbonisation technology company Topsoe have formed a 50:50 joint venture (JV) to develop, build, own, and operate drop-in sustainable... 


Investments in clean electrification, grid infrastructure and efficiency are the main components of the increase in spending.

Two-thirds of energy transition finance in developing economies to be private – report

7th July 2023

Yearly clean energy investments in emerging and developing economies will need to more than triple from $770-billion currently to as much as $2.8-trillion by the early 2030s in order to meet rising... 


Eskom power lines and substation

Eskom’s new grid queuing rules to be governed by ‘first ready, first served’ approach

7th July 2023

State-owned electricity utility Eskom is preparing to issue updated grid queuing rules that will outline how it plans to manage scarce grid connection capacity in a way that avoids “hogging” of... 


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Help or hindrance?

7th July 2023

It’s far from ideal that several of South Africa’s main micro-economic problems are being managed by crisis committees made up of government officials, business representatives and consultants.... 


Report highlights the relative materials intensity of technologies required for the net-zero transition, such as offshore wind turbines

Mining, refining, smelting investment of up to $4tr by 2030 needed to support net-zero shift – report

6th July 2023

As the world accelerates the deployment of climate technologies in support of the net-zero transition, there is a risk that materials supply might not scale at the required speed, a new McKinsey &... 


Power lines

Updated loadshedding code includes up to 16 stages to reduce grid-collapse risk

4th July 2023

A new and updated edition of the loadshedding code of practice, which includes up to 16 stages of loadshedding, has been finalised by and expert group and delivered to the National Energy Regulator... 


M&R fails to regain control of RUC, but continues to explore Australia options

M&R fails to regain control of RUC, but continues to explore Australia options

4th July 2023

JSE-listed engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts (M&R) has failed in its bid to regain control of RUC Cementation Mining Contractors (RUC), which was lost to the group when its... 


Solar panels with Cape Town in background

Cape Town’s draft energy strategy sets goal of adding 650 MW within five years

30th June 2023

Cape Town’s energy strategy, which has been released for public comment, envisages the addition of 650 MW of new independent generation within five years in line with the city’s stated goal of... 


Endeavor South Africa MD Alison Collier

Venture capital fund targeting up to 30 entrepreneurial firms

30th June 2023

Endeavor South Africa, which offers venture capital and mentoring support to domestic and African entrepreneurial enterprises, is targeting to invest in up to 30 tech and tech-enabled companies... 


National Logistics Crisis Committee to tackle transport emergencies in parallel to reform agenda

National Logistics Crisis Committee to tackle transport emergencies in parallel to reform agenda

30th June 2023

The National Logistics Crisis Committee (NLCC) will adopt a two-pronged approach to addressing the rail, port and road crises currently undermining growth and job creation in South Africa, whereby... 


Eskom Power station

Presidency outlines criteria to be used before revising coal decommissioning schedule

30th June 2023

The Presidency has moved to outline the criteria that will be used before any decision is made to delay the decommissioning of certain coal-fired power stations to take account of the prevailing... 


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Least-cost foundation

30th June 2023

There is no question that South Africa truly does need to update its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), with the demand, supply and technology cost assumptions in the prevailing 2019 edition having... 


Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe

Govt developing critical minerals strategy to support green industrialisation – Mantashe

29th June 2023

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe reports that government is in the process of developing a critical minerals strategy for South Africa, which will seek to support green-economy... 


Solar panels and power lines

Eskom’s ‘onerous’ new grid access rules receive cool reception

27th June 2023

Eskom’s newly released Interim Grid Capacity Allocation Rules (IGCAR), formulated in response to surging demand for grid access in a context of acute grid scarcity, have received a cool reception... 


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