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South Africa must embrace 9 GW of power private sector can offer
27th January 2023 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s private sector has a total pipeline of 9 GW of energy projects in solar, wind, gas and battery storage on offer, Minerals Council South Africa has assured. By expediting those... 


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Muddling problems and solutions
27th January 2023 By: Terence Creamer

South Africa’s power crisis is effectively death by a thousand cuts. It’s the consequence of decades of poor policy choices and inappropriate regulation, pitiable governance at Eskom, which enabled... 


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Opinion: AfDB report shows Africa is the place to invest in 2023
25th January 2023

In this article, Norton Rose Fulbright Africa Practice head Greg Nott writes about the investment prospects for South Africa and Africa this year, as well as the continent's green hydrogen... 


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South Africa must fast-track search for critical minerals
20th January 2023 By: Martin Creamer

With critical minerals essential for the success of global plans to green the planet, South Africa must help itself and the rest of the world by fast-tracking the search for these minerals. Far too... 


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Regressive step
20th January 2023 By: Terence Creamer

The African National Congress’ resolution to relocate the country’s large State-owned enterprises (SOEs) under their line departments is a regressive step for governance and bad news for... 


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Opinion: Focus on improving EAF as a quick win to stop loadshedding
12th January 2023

In this opinion article, SANEDI CEO Dr Zwanani Titus Mathe interrogates measures and interventions that could be pursued to improve the energy availability factor of the Eskom coal fleet so as to... 


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South Africa must seize industrial growth opportunity that climate action brings with it
16th December 2022 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s public sector and private sector are united in highlighting the industrial growth that mitigating climate change brings with it. The green hydrogen summit not only had South Africa’s... 


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‘Mutually dependent’
16th December 2022 By: Terence Creamer

German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, made two provocative points during the fourth German-African Business Summit, which took place in... 


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South Africa’s badly lagging cities must be incentivised to double down on decarbonisation
9th December 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Only the tiniest fraction of South African real estate is carbon neutral. On the current trajectory, it will take century or more to decarbonise them. It is estimated that 80% of buildings that... 


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Disappointing outcome
9th December 2022 By: Terence Creamer

Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has attempted to put a positive gloss on its recent attempt to sell 16 slots on its Cape and Container corridors that resulted in only one applicant emerging as a... 


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Smash crime to smithereens to open way for meaningful economic growth
2nd December 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Economic growth and crime are mutually exclusive and cannot coexist, which is why South Africa Inc must collaboratively and collectively smash crime to smithereens. The exploding rates of murder,... 


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Dire warning
2nd December 2022 By: Terence Creamer

By this time next week, Eskom is likely, against the advice of some, to have shut Koeberg Unit 1 for an extended refuelling and maintenance programme that is scheduled to continue for between 180... 


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Hats off to Motsepe Foundation for launch of $2m green energy prize
25th November 2022 By: Martin Creamer

There is nothing more suited to our well-endowed African continent than energy that is green and clean. We have superior sun, prime wind and in many places strongly flowing water. Those are the... 


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Recovery with risks
25th November 2022 By: Terence Creamer

Besides the shock resignation of acting generation MD Rhulani Mathebula, who himself stepped in to the role when Phillip Dukashe resigned in May, there were few surprises in Eskom’s latest state of... 


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Opinion: Koeberg life extension could flip switch on half a trillion rands of economic damage
24th November 2022

In this opinion article, energy analyst and commentator Clyde Mallinson warns that, against the backdrop of persistent and erratic loadshedding, the economic cost of shutting the Koeberg nuclear... 


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