Eskom’s newly appointed acting CEO Brian Molefe says the utility needs to find an additional 3 000 Megawatts of power in order to maintain power plants without implementing load shedding.

Eskom’s Sere Wind Farm near Vredendal in the Western Cape has achieved its full commercial operational capacity of 100MW.

In a first for South Africa, Calgro M3 is soon to launch a subsidiary that will operate completely off the national electricity grid, by generating its own renewable energy to run all aspects of the business, including that subsidiary’s administration office.

Tsogo Sun and Sun International to persuade the Competition Tribunal to ignore the Competition Commission’s recommendation that their planned Cape market-share agreement be prohibited.

Eskom will move from stage 2 to stage 3 load-shedding at 4pm today.

Horizon Capital has recently completed an office block in Century city that is designed to be Eskom-proof.

Redefine contemplates another attempt for Fountainhead assets

Eskom will implement stage 2 load-shedding as of 4pm this afternoon, said the utility on Wednesday.

Given the threat of both an energy and water crisis, President Jacob Zuma has encouraged the private sector to “go green”, with government now looking to increase the energy efficiency incentives on offer. 

Eskom has confirmed that a price increase will be implemented on 1 April 2015.