[ad_1] South Africa has begun discussions with the World Bank for a $1 billion (approx. R19 billion) loan to support Eskom’s transmission company and to upgrade Transnet’s railway infrastructure. This…
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Eskom Chairman Quits as South Africa Power Utility Seeks CEO
[ad_1] (Bloomberg) — Mpho Makwana will step down as chairman of South Africa’s beleaguered power utility at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.’s annual general meeting at the end of the month.…
South Africa’s solar boom bleeds Eskom
[ad_1] South Africa’s near fourfold increase in rooftop solar power generation capacity over the past year has burnt a large hole in the pockets of Eskom and municipalities that distribute…
Largest labour union at Eskom calls to suspend climate finance pact | Business
[ad_1] Eskom’s Majuba power station. Moeletsi Mabe/Gallo Images, The Times The National Union of Mineworkers, representing the most workers of any union at Eskom, called for the $8.5bn climate…
Eskom union wants South Africa to dump $8.5 billion move away from coal
[ad_1] The main labour union at South Africa’s state power utility called for the suspension of a R163 billion ($8.5 billion) climate finance pact with some of the world’s richest…
Eskom gives South Africa a longer break from load shedding – here’s the new schedule
[ad_1] Power utility Eskom says it will suspend load shedding during the day and implement stage 2 in the evenings until Wednesday (4 October). “As anticipated, with breakdowns at an…
Exclusive: South African utility Eskom pollutes more in bid to keep lights on
[ad_1] Country faces worst power crisis on record Eskom delaying maintenance, running plants harder Four facilities breaching emissions limits JOHANNESBURG, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Four of South African state utility…
So Eskom, how is the reliability maintenance coming along?
[ad_1] Halfway into the current financial year Eskom has completed only eight of the 54 outages in its reliability maintenance programme for the period. That is not even 15%. This,…
Eskom chief warns South Africans to prepare for worst-ever blackouts
[ad_1] Receive free South Africa updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest South Africa news every morning. The head of South Africa’s broken Eskom…
Eskom latest: Coal plant revival report to be submitted this week
[ad_1] German energy consultants have completed a review of Eskom’s struggling coal-fired plants and will submit the report to South Africa’s finance minister this week. Enoch Godongwana is set to…