Energy news

Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

Trending

2 days 7 days 30 days By Industry

Second Discovery advert ruled misleading by ARB
Danette Breitenbach
Small haircare business strikes deal with Checkers
Wine in cartons gain popularity
Discovering the latest trends in South African wine categories
Oelof Weideman
Bidvest Bank, FinGlobal up for sale
EXCLUSIVE: Making real change to the e-waste challenge
Ashley du Plooy

Minister Ramokgopa is determined to deliver a new IRP plan before the year is out.

Ramokgopa’s 20GW renewables plan is a sharp turn from IRP2023Lindsey Schutters

Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, used his first media address to highlight the biggest issues facing the country's electricity supply.

Ramokgopa highlights SA’s biggest electricity challenges, and it isn’t supplyLindsey Schutters

Desco is a featured Ferro Energia customer for its flagship installations.

Desco is adding renewables to power e-waste recycling

Good news for motorists as fuel prices decrease

Good news for motorists as fuel prices decrease

Source: iStock.

Municipal tariff hikes deliver a shocking financial blow to workersAbigail Moyo

Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, used his first media address to highlight the biggest issues facing the country's electricity supply.

Ramokgopa highlights SA’s biggest electricity challenges, and it isn’t supply

By Lindsey Schutters 2 days

Desco is a featured Ferro Energia customer for its flagship installations.

Desco is adding renewables to power e-waste recycling

2 days

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Khalid Abdelaziz 28 Jun 2021

Eskom to pay disputed wage rise in union standoff

25 Jun 2021

Port of Saldanha. Source: Transnet Port Terminals

DFFE sinks Karpowership deal

24 Jun 2021

Kusile Power Station. Image: Wikipedia

Eskom promises to complete Kusile on time

18 Jun 2021

Eskom's former chairman Jabu Mabuza looks on during the release of the company's 2018/19 interim results at its head office at Megawatt Park, in Sunninghill, South Africa, November 28, 2018. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

South Africa's former Eskom chairman dies aged 63 - statement

Nqobile Dludla 17 Jun 2021

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Mahmoud Mourad, Nayera Abdallah and Raya Jalabi 17 Jun 2021

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Melanie Burton and Hereward Holland 15 Jun 2021

Ghana produces excess electricity but its management is inefficient. Wikimedia Commons

Ghana's electricity supply mix has improved, but reliability and cost is still a challenge

Theophilus Acheampong & Bridget O Menyeh 11 Jun 2021

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

Kieran Whyte 11 Jun 2021

Clean sources, job security are crucial to SA's energy future

Clean sources, job security are crucial to SA's energy future

11 Jun 2021

Cloetesville Primary receives its Electrical Performance Certificate. Image: Stefan Els

GreenX Engineering helps Cloetesville Primary to achieve EPC certificate

11 Jun 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Ramaphosa lifts embedded generation threshold to 100MW

Nicci Botha 10 Jun 2021

Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter

Eskom's De Ruyter cleared of misconduct

3 Jun 2021

Another round of loadshedding hits the country

Another round of loadshedding hits the country

2 Jun 2021

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

1 Jun 2021

Caspar Herzberg, president, Middle East and Africa, Schneider Electric

Deregulation and technology will fulfil South Africa's power needs

Caspar Herzberg 28 May 2021

Image: Rio Tinto

Richards Bay Minerals GM gunned down

25 May 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Schedule 2 licence cap should be increased to 50MW

24 May 2021

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

20 May 2021

Have your say on new energy vehicles green paper

Have your say on new energy vehicles green paper

19 May 2021

Mineral resources and energy minister, Gwede Mantashe. Image:

Shale gas pockets found in the Karoo, Mantashe says

19 May 2021

Load shedding back, as Eskom crashes again

Load shedding back, as Eskom crashes again

17 May 2021

Megan Rodgers, director, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Petroleum Bill has lift off at last

14 May 2021

Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for its cars

Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for its cars

13 May 2021

Concentrated solar power plant. Source Wikipedia

First CSP molten salt tower expected to electrify 210,000 SA homes during peak demand periods

12 May 2021

Senior Eskom manager suspended, R12m bank account frozen

Senior Eskom manager suspended, R12m bank account frozen

10 May 2021

Powering the economy through alternative energy

Powering the economy through alternative energy

5 May 2021

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

29 Apr 2021

Kusile Power Station

Lomas arrested in Eskom corruption case

26 Apr 2021

Kieran Whyte, partner and head of the energy, mining and infrastructure practice, Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg,

South Africa's green hydrogen potential

Kieran Whyte 23 Apr 2021

More news

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Khalid Abdelaziz 28 Jun 2021

Eskom to pay disputed wage rise in union standoff

25 Jun 2021

Port of Saldanha. Source: Transnet Port Terminals

DFFE sinks Karpowership deal

24 Jun 2021

Kusile Power Station. Image: Wikipedia

Eskom promises to complete Kusile on time

18 Jun 2021

Eskom's former chairman Jabu Mabuza looks on during the release of the company's 2018/19 interim results at its head office at Megawatt Park, in Sunninghill, South Africa, November 28, 2018. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

South Africa's former Eskom chairman dies aged 63 - statement

Nqobile Dludla 17 Jun 2021

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Mahmoud Mourad, Nayera Abdallah and Raya Jalabi 17 Jun 2021

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Melanie Burton and Hereward Holland 15 Jun 2021

Ghana produces excess electricity but its management is inefficient. Wikimedia Commons

Ghana's electricity supply mix has improved, but reliability and cost is still a challenge

Theophilus Acheampong & Bridget O Menyeh 11 Jun 2021

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

Kieran Whyte 11 Jun 2021

Clean sources, job security are crucial to SA's energy future

Clean sources, job security are crucial to SA's energy future

11 Jun 2021

Cloetesville Primary receives its Electrical Performance Certificate. Image: Stefan Els

GreenX Engineering helps Cloetesville Primary to achieve EPC certificate

11 Jun 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Ramaphosa lifts embedded generation threshold to 100MW

Nicci Botha 10 Jun 2021

Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter

Eskom's De Ruyter cleared of misconduct

3 Jun 2021

Another round of loadshedding hits the country

Another round of loadshedding hits the country

2 Jun 2021

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

1 Jun 2021

Caspar Herzberg, president, Middle East and Africa, Schneider Electric

Deregulation and technology will fulfil South Africa's power needs

Caspar Herzberg 28 May 2021

Image: Rio Tinto

Richards Bay Minerals GM gunned down

25 May 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Schedule 2 licence cap should be increased to 50MW

24 May 2021

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

20 May 2021

Have your say on new energy vehicles green paper

Have your say on new energy vehicles green paper

19 May 2021

Mineral resources and energy minister, Gwede Mantashe. Image:

Shale gas pockets found in the Karoo, Mantashe says

19 May 2021

Load shedding back, as Eskom crashes again

Load shedding back, as Eskom crashes again

17 May 2021

Megan Rodgers, director, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Petroleum Bill has lift off at last

14 May 2021

Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for its cars

Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for its cars

13 May 2021

Concentrated solar power plant. Source Wikipedia

First CSP molten salt tower expected to electrify 210,000 SA homes during peak demand periods

12 May 2021

Senior Eskom manager suspended, R12m bank account frozen

Senior Eskom manager suspended, R12m bank account frozen

10 May 2021

Powering the economy through alternative energy

Powering the economy through alternative energy

5 May 2021

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

29 Apr 2021

Kusile Power Station

Lomas arrested in Eskom corruption case

26 Apr 2021

Kieran Whyte, partner and head of the energy, mining and infrastructure practice, Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg,

South Africa's green hydrogen potential

Kieran Whyte 23 Apr 2021

More coal-fired power or 100% renewables? For the next few decades, both paths are wrong

22 Apr 2021

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

Greenpeace and Western anti-Africa energy groups take the wrong approach

NJ Ayuk 19 Apr 2021

Eskom hopes to raise R2bn by selling non-core properties

Eskom hopes to raise R2bn by selling non-core properties

13 Apr 2021

Powerships: A solution for Africa's energy short-term supply?

Andres Vega 9 Apr 2021

Natascha Viljoen, CEO, Anglo American Platinum

Public private collaboration to create a hydrogen valley

1 Apr 2021

Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered

Where a global carbon tax meets a just energy transition

1 Apr 2021

For now, only those who can afford it will be able to escape the power cuts. Shutterstock/ Arnold Petersen

Why South Africa's electricity blackouts are set to continue for the next five years

31 Mar 2021

Minister of environment, forestry and fisheries, Barbara Creecy

Transitioning away from coal

25 Mar 2021

Karpowership vessel, Kaya Bey

RMIPPPP floating power stations raise questions on carbon emissions

24 Mar 2021

Eskom head office

Kusile and Medupi design defects rectified, yet load shedding goes on

18 Mar 2021