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This South African grocer is betting big on solar to cut down Eskom bills

Food Lover’s Market says that it will expand its solar investments and implement energy-saving technologies at its distribution centres and certain stores to alleviate its reliance on Eskom-supplie...

Eskom warns of stage 2 load shedding at short notice on Wednesday

Power utility Eskom has warned that it might have to implement load shedding at short notice on Wednesday (10 August), due to losses in generating capacity.

Eskom wants to introduce a new ‘time-of-use’ tariff for residential customers

Power utility Eskom has submitted its proposed 2023 Tariff Restructuring Plan to energy regulator Nersa, showing how the group wants to make sweeping changes to its price structures.

Eskom proposes complete tariff overhaul – including a massive change for prepaid users

Power utility Eskom has submitted its proposed 2023 Tariff Restructuring Plan to energy regulator Nersa, showing how the group wants to make sweeping changes to its price structures.

Pushback against BEE hiring requirements amid Eskom skills crisis

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has pushed back against the rigid enforcement of BBBEE hiring practices at Eskom.

Blow to South Africa power supply

Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply more than 1,200 megawatts of power to South Africa, said its appeal to overturn an environmental ruling against its plans has failed in another b...

Eskom suspends load shedding

Eskom says that it will suspend stage 2 load shedding from Sunday afternoon due to much-improved generation capacity and the lower weekend demand, as well as a full recovery in emergency generation...

Eskom announces stage 2 load shedding this weekend – here is the schedule

Power utility Eskom says that stage 2 load shedding will be implemented this weekend due to the continued shortage of generation capacity.

Solidarity delivers list of 300 power experts to help stabilise Eskom

Solidarity has issued a list of skilled power experts to public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan and Eskom CEO André de Ruyter, following a request by the former to draw up such a list to help t...

Eskom to move to stage 4 load shedding – here’s the new schedule

Power utility Eskom says that load shedding will increase to stage 4 on Thursday (4 August) between 16:00-24:00, due to the continued shortage of generation capacity.

Eskom warns load shedding could return at short notice today

Power utility Eskom has warned that it might have to implement load shedding at short notice following a loss in generating capacity and a slow return of generating units to operation.

Call to rejuvenate partially abandoned skyscraper in Joburg

South Africa’s state-owned port and rail company Transnet is gauging interest from developers to rejuvenate a half-century-old building that is also one of Africa’s tallest.