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Solving transmission bottlenecks vital for unlocking supply
By: Cameron Mackay 28th January 2022 Overcoming energy transmission congestion is vital to stabilise energy supply in South Africa and, to ensure that energy supply meets demand, transmission assessments and upgrades need to be conducted to allow for energy access from resource-rich solar and wind areas, states renewable-energy... →
Mining mobility market ideal for hydrogen uptake
By: Cameron Mackay 28th January 2022 Emerging mobility applications for hydrogen, such as heavy-duty mobility and materials handling equipment used in mining, provide an ideal market for the increased uptake of green hydrogen technology in South Africa, states hydrogen technology provider Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser Division SVP Filip... →
SA’s green energy outlook for 2022
By: Cameron Mackay 28th January 2022 With a background in electrical engineering, “a knack for business, and a passion for sustainability”, Norwegian global renewables company Scatec Southern Africa GM Jan Fourie has specialised in renewable energy projects for over a decade. He says his love for South Africa and the natural... →
Miner’s transition plan to benefit all stakeholders
By: Cameron Mackay 28th January 2022 As part of diversified miner Sibanye-Stillwater’s development of renewable-energy projects, the miner has created an Infrastructure for Impact programme to benefit all its relevant stakeholders while executing these energy infrastructure projects, explains Sibanye-Stillwater energy and... →
Miner to build climate-change-resilient businesses
By: Cameron Mackay 28th January 2022 Environmental, social and corporate governance is central to diversified miner Sibanye-Stillwater’s strategy, and guides the company in how it operates and generates shared value for its stakeholders. Core to this strategy is building “climate-change-resilient businesses”, states... →
Eskom to release Mpumalanga land to catalyse investments in sub-100 MW renewables projects 
By: Terence Creamer 15th December 2021 Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced that Eskom is preparing to release land in the coal-rich Mpumalanga province for sub-100 MW distributed electricity projects that can now be built without a licence and wheel electricity through the grid for self-consumption, or for sale to... →
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan
Platinum demand from electrolysers likely to be between one- and two-million ounces over next 15 years
By: Simone Liedtke 8th December 2021 Electrolyser markets could grow from almost nothing today to one quarter of 1 TW by 2030, and over 3 TW by 2050, to meet the demand for fossil-fuel free green hydrogen, according to a recent Hydrogen Council report by the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). The electrolysis of water is a... →
Nersa gears up to release consultation paper on Eskom’s latest revenue application
By: Terence Creamer 6th December 2021 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) will release a consultation paper on December 8 alongside Eskom’s fifth multiyear price determination application (MYPD5), which covers the three financial years from 2022/23 to 2024/25. The paper, which is currently being finalised, will... →
Nersa ordered by court to decide Eskom’s 2022/23 tariff by Feb 25
By: Terence Creamer 3rd December 2021 Judge Jody Kollapen has ordered that Eskom’s revenue application for the 2022/23 financial year be decided by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) by February 25 and that it be adjudicated in line with the multiyear pricing determination (MYPD) methodology published in 2016. The... →
Eskom presenting at a previous revenue application hearing
Judge to rule next week on latest Eskom-Nersa legal wrangle
By: Terence Creamer 1st December 2021 Judge Jody Kollapen has reserved judgment in Eskom’s application to have the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) rejection of its latest revenue application set aside as irrational and unlawful. Following a virtual hearing on December 1, Kollapen indicated that he expected to... →
NextSource signs power supply contract for Madagascar graphite mine
By: Marleny Arnoldi 24th November 2021 Canadian miner NextSource has awarded a 20-year power supply contract to independent power producer CrossBoundary Energy to supply solar and thermal power to the Molo graphite mine operations, in Madagascar. The agreement has been set up so that the power generation can scale up along with the... →
Minerals Council members could deliver up to 3 900 MW of supplementary electricity supply
By: Simone Liedtke 23rd November 2021 Minerals Council South Africa member companies could deliver up to 3 900 MW of renewable energy projects worth an estimated R60-billion, which, if built, would relieve pressure on State-owned power utility Eskom and go a long way towards meeting the industry’s commitment to achieve net-zero... →
China withdraws funding from Limpopo 3 GW SEZ power project
By: Simone Liedtke 18th November 2021 The Chinese government has confirmed that the country will no longer be funding a new 3 GW coal-fired power plant in the planned Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (MM-SEZ) in South Africa’s Limpopo province. Chinese Premier Xi Jinping announced China’s end to funding of overseas coal projects... →
Mining sector looking toward hydrogen, battery storage to decarbonise
By: Marleny Arnoldi 10th November 2021 The global energy landscape is changing amid a rush to net-zero emissions by 2050, and renewable energy is going from strength to strength, with these projects having captured nearly 50% of all new generation build capital in 2020. Energy services company Wärtsilä Canada business development... →
Procurement rules and liquidity constraints hold back Eskom’s maintenance roll-out
By: Terence Creamer 9th November 2021 Liquidity constraints and procurement problems continue to impede Eskom’s reliability maintenance recovery (RMR) programme, with CEO Andre de Ruyter reporting that South Africa’s public procurement rules have undercut the utility’s efforts to swiftly appoint the competent contractors needed to... →
Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter
Nersa to oppose Eskom’s move to have MYPD5 rejection set aside
By: Terence Creamer 28th October 2021 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has notified the Gauteng division of the High Court that it will oppose Eskom’s application to have the regulator’s decision to reject the utility’s fifth multiyear price determination (MYPD5) revenue application reviewed and set aside. Eskom... →
A photo of Eskom CFO Calib Cassim presenting its case at a previous tariff hearing
Diesel and load-shedding feature in summer outlook as Eskom's maintenance recovery takes longer than envisaged 
By: Terence Creamer 25th October 2021 State-owned electricity utility Eskom says its reliability maintenance recovery (RMR) interventions have not yet succeeded in stabilising the performance of its unpredictable coal fleet and that more than year of ongoing maintenance is needed to address the poor performance of its generation... →
Eskom to jointly develop solar projects with Exxaro, Seriti
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th October 2021 Coal miners Exxaro and Seriti Resources are joining forces with State-owned power utility Eskom to jointly develop renewable energy projects. The landmark memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the parties on October 25 spells out the companies’ development plan to lower their carbon... →
How South Africa plans to secure backing for its ‘Just Transition Financing Facility’ at COP26
By: Terence Creamer 21st October 2021 South Africa aims to meet with other governments and multilateral finance institutions on the sidelines of the upcoming COP26 gathering to progress talks on raising concessional funding, in phases, for a Cabinet-endorsed ‘Just Transition Financing Facility’ to fund green projects in the... →
Bushveld Minerals enters fourth quarter on solid footing
By: Simone Liedtke 21st October 2021 Aim-listed integrated primary vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals achieved a 19% quarter-on-quarter increase in production for the third quarter, which the company said was underpinned by operational stability at Vametco. Bushveld, which is also an energy storage solutions provider with ownership... →
Bushveld CEO Fortune Mojapelo
Eskom seeks urgent court order to have 2022/23 tariff application adjudicated by Nersa
By: Terence Creamer 15th October 2021 State-owned electricity utility Eskom has approached the Gauteng High Court to have the regulator’s recent decision to reject its revenue application for the period 2022/23 to 2024/25 set aside for being “patently irrational and unlawful”. Eskom approached the court this week for a review of the... →
Eskom CFO Calib Cassim, who deposed the founding affidavit, speaking at a previous Nersa hearing
Electricity wheeling can reduce load-shedding risk if legal, technical uncertainties are addressed
By: Donna Slater 15th October 2021 Tariffs and the legal framework governing the wheeling of electricity from independent power producers (IPPs), which are taking advantage of the recently declared 100 MW licence threshold, will be key factors in IPPs’ ability and willingness to feed surplus power into regional and national power... →
Innovation brings benefits and poses challenges
By: Simone Liedtke 8th October 2021 Integrating technological innovation into mining industry practices can result in reduced costs, increased productivity and improved worker safety. However, it also presents an unexpected challenge, as replacement motors, in particular, are now bought as smaller iterations, and often do not fit... →
Cooperation crucial to West African development – law firm
By: Cameron Mackay 8th October 2021 Amid opportunities for mining and the availability of substantial human resources in West Africa, cooperation between the public and private sectors can help grow mining in the region. This cooperation can contribute to the development of industries, such as the energy sector, as well as the... →
Anglo progressing with decarbonisation, sustainability endeavours – Cutifani
By: Donna Slater 7th October 2021 Diversified major Anglo American continues to take steps to usher in hydrogen-powered machinery, as well as to roll out renewable energy at its global operations as a means of improving its sustainability, CE Mark Cutifani said during a Financial Times Mining Summit on October 7. He pointed out... →
Holistic approach needed to achieve a just transition, says panel
By: Marleny Arnoldi 7th October 2021 With environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects often related to solving issues in an area or country, thinking is starting to shift away from managing the Covid-19 crisis and vaccine delivery to the just energy transition. A panel discussion on ESG hosted during the first day of the... →
Thyssenkrupp, Wismut to study potential to repurpose old South African gold mines for energy storage
By: Simone Liedtke 6th October 2021 Diversified industrial group Thyssenkrupp Uhde South Africa and German uranium mining company Wismut have been appointed to execute a prefeasibility study for a renewable underground pumped hydroelectric energy storage (Ruphes) project on a specific but undisclosed site owned by a South African... →
Global metals, mining demand ‘tepid at best’ – WoodMac
By: Simone Liedtke 6th October 2021 With the global metals and mining markets having faltered under the weight of Covid-19 pandemic-driven lockdowns, demand outside of China was “tepid at best and in freefall at worst”, says global research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac). From a mined commodities perspective,... →
ABB secures integrated automation, power system order for Gold Fields' Salares Norte mine
By: Schalk Burger 27th September 2021 Industrial technologies multinational ABB will provide six electrical rooms and an integrated digital system solution based on the ABB Ability 800xA distributed control system (DCS) to gold miner Gold Fields’ Salares Norte operation, in a remote region of northern Chile. The digital solution... →
Kibo progresses funding for UK waste gasification, power plant acquisition
By: Simone Liedtke 23rd September 2021 Renewable energy focused developer Kibo Energy is now in receipt of formal term sheets for the funding required to buy a 54.54% interest in the MWe Billingham waste gasification and power plant in the UK. The aggregate amount of funding offered to the company under the term sheets exceed the... →
Exxaro, Cennergi developing 70 MW solar project in Lephalale
By: Simone Liedtke 22nd September 2021 Diversified miner Exxaro Resources’ renewable energy subsidiary, Cennergi, will develop the 70 MW Lephalale solar project to supply the Grootegeluk coal mine, near Lephalale, Limpopo. The group announced on Wednesday that Exxaro Coal and Cennergi had concluded a term sheet, setting out material... →
Coal industry needs to acknowledge ‘just transition’, says Exxaro CEO-designate
By: Simone Liedtke 22nd September 2021 Considering the polarising views on the coal industry’s importance, diversified mining and energy company Exxaro Resources CEO-designate Dr Nombasa Tsengwa believes the industry must acknowledge the “just transition” from coal to renewables as both a manner of going green, and a chance for mining... →
Sasol, NRF call for energy transition and green economy solution proposals
By: Donna Slater 17th September 2021 Integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol and the National Research Foundation (NRF) are requesting research proposals on science and engineering projects that can enable Sasol’s and South Africa’s energy transition, as well as the development of the country’s green economy. Of interest to... →
Engie partners with Scatec for PV support at mine-based hydrogen plant
By: Marleny Arnoldi 6th September 2021 Renewable energy company Scatec has signed a two-year lease agreement with Engie to provide a mobile plug-and-play solar photovoltaic (PV) plant at its hydrogen production plant at Anglo American Platinum’s Mokalakwena mine, in Limpopo. Scatec launched its Release by Scatec service in September... →
DBSA expects strong demand for $200m embedded-generation scheme amid regulatory reform tail wind
By: Terence Creamer 31st August 2021 The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is optimistic that there will be a significant uptake of its $200-million Embedded Generation Investment Programme (EGIP) in light of recent regulatory changes exempting sub-100 MW facilities from licensing and enabling distributed plants to both... →
Microgeneration, the future of green stable power
By: Claire O'Reilly 27th August 2021 Amid growing interest in the adoption of hybrid energy solutions and South African mines’ aiming to invest in on-site standalone or microgrid hybrid solutions, engineering services consulting firm WSP suggests that microgeneration and hybrid solutions are the future for local industries and mines. →
Generators necessary despite new legislation
By: Claire O'Reilly 27th August 2021 With load-shedding a reoccurring problem for mines and businesses in Southern Africa, standby power generation company Generator and Plant Hire South Africa (GPHSA) suggests that mines will still need to rent generators for a while, even with the introduction of the new electricity regulations. →
Waste to power, a double opportunity
By: Claire O'Reilly 27th August 2021 Waste management is not only fundamental to the sustainability and legal compliance of a mine but it also has larger-scale, industry symbiotic economic benefits through enforcing and contributing to a circular economy-based business model. →
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