Eskom

KEY POINTS South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a new board for Eskom Holdings, the state-owned power utility at the heart of the country’s energy recovery plan, while retaining Mteto Nyati …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s state-owned power utility, Eskom, is planning to cut electricity tariffs after returning to profitability for the first time in eight years, a turnaround that its chairman, …

KEY POINTS Eskom has officially kicked off its long-awaited smart meter installation drive in KwaZulu-Natal, marking the start of a sweeping plan to modernise South Africa’s electricity network and tackle …

KEY POINTS The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute, SAFCEI, has intensified its criticism of Eskom’s plan to extend the operating life of Unit 2 at the Koeberg Nuclear Power …

KEY POINTS The long-running tension between Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned power utility, and Nersa, the National Energy Regulator, has escalated after the civil rights group AfriForum succeeded in temporarily halting …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s state power utility Eskom has appointed long-serving executive Monde Bala as the chief executive of its transmission subsidiary, the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA), cementing …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s troubled but indispensable coal fleet has reached a new milestone. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said Thursday it had commissioned the sixth and final unit of the …

KEY POINTS South African households and businesses are bracing for steeper power bills after Eskom and the country’s energy regulator signed off on a deal that will push tariffs higher …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s former power utility chief, ESKOM, André de Ruyter, says the country’s longest stretch without rolling blackouts in years owes less to sudden operational miracles and more …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s National Energy Regulator, Nersa, is facing a storm of criticism after admitting to a R54 billion miscalculation in Eskom’s tariff settlement — an error that will …