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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Cape Town school's electricity connection cut after failing to pay R39,000 bill

    Cape Town school's electricity connection cut after failing to pay R39,000 bill A primary school in Delft, Cape Town owed Eskom about R39,000 and has been without electricity since February. The education department is trying to assist the school but this is not the first time it has been...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Greenpeace study finds Eskom power stations big air pollution sinners

    Greenpeace study finds Eskom power stations big air pollution sinners South Africa is home to many of the world’s worst emission sites for toxic nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide and most of those are operated by the nation’s state power utility, according to Greenpeace. Coal-fired power...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Load-shedding break for the "long weekend"

    Load-shedding break for the "long weekend" Eskom will suspend load-shedding from 05:00 on Thursday, 21 March 2024, due to an expected decrease in electricity demand heading into the weekend, coupled with an increase in available generating capacity. The rotational power cuts will be dropped...
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    Cape Town launches online portal for private solar applications

    Cape Town launches online portal for private solar applications The City of Cape Town (CoCT) has launched an online portal to simplify and speed up solar installation applications by households and businesses. CoCT mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis launched the new online Energy Services Applications...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom switches to stage 2 and stage 3 rotation for the week

    Eskom switches to stage 2 and stage 3 rotation for the week Eskom is bringing an end to daytime load-shedding breaks and increasing evening load-shedding by one stage. The change in schedule comes after the power utility lost three generating units and experienced delays in returning another...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    How much more Eskom Direct customers will pay from 1 April 2024

    How much more Eskom Direct customers will pay from 1 April 2024 Eskom is set to hike its electricity tariffs on 1 April 2024, and South Africans will see their monthly electricity bill increase significantly, with residential Homepower rates increasing by approximately 12.7% across the board...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom load-shedding schedule for the week

    Eskom load-shedding schedule for the week Eskom plans to suspend load-shedding for most daytime hours in the coming week, the power utility said in a statement on Sunday, 10 March 2024. Eskom explained the load-shedding breaks were made possible by the recovery of emergency generation...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    Clarens has been load-shedding-free for 7 months

    Clarens has been load-shedding-free for 7 months By collectively reducing their electricity demand during load-shedding, residents and businesses of Clarens have been completely exempt from the rotational power cuts for seven months. Sunday newspaper Rapport has detailed how the small Free...
  10. antowan

    Stage 13 load shedding? Government kept enormity of Eskom crisis secret for months

    Paywalled. Interesting headline... https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/stage-13-load-shedding-government-kept-enormity-of-eskom-crisis-secret-for-months-20240302
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    Life in the Vaal Triangle — One of the world's most polluted regions

    Life in the Vaal Triangle — One of the world's most polluted regions Just 48km from Johannesburg, in a South African region known as the Vaal Triangle, 1.7 million people are living in a crossfire of some of the most dangerous pollution on Earth. From the highway into Vanderbijlpark, you can...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    New study launched to investigate Eskom pollution's death count

    New study launched to investigate Eskom pollution's death count South African scientists plan to examine about 8.5 million death certificates to ascertain how many people the country’s dependence on coal for electricity is killing. The review is the first of its kind in Africa in that it will...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    National Treasury pressure stopping Eskom from using tens of billions in renewable energy funding

    National Treasury pressure stopping Eskom from using tens of billions in renewable energy funding South Africa’s state power utility has failed to tap $2.5 billion (R47.9 billion) of cheap loans to build critical transmission infrastructure that would help end the country’s crippling energy...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom implements stage 4 until further notice

    Eskom implements stage 4 until further notice Eskom increased load-shedding to stage 4 early on Thursday, 22 February 2024, due to losing six generating units overnight. The power utility announced at 03:01 that it would ramp up from stage 2 to stage 4 at 04:00. The increased power cuts will...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom rotating between stage 2 and no load-shedding until further notice

    Eskom rotating between stage 2 and no load-shedding until further notice Eskom plans to implement stage 2 load-shedding during the evenings and early morning hours and suspend the rotational power cuts for most daytime hours, until further notice. In a statement on Sunday afternoon, the power...
  16. Hanno Labuschagne

    Corruption-accused Anoj Singh wants to work for Gupta-linked company in Dubai

    Corruption-accused Anoj Singh wants to work for Gupta-linked company in Dubai Former Eskom and Transnet chief financial officer Anoj Singh has plans to head a Gupta-linked company in Dubai, City Press reports. Singh is currently awaiting trial after being arrested alongside former Eskom and...
  17. Hanno Labuschagne

    Rejoice! Day-time load-shedding breaks for the weekend

    Rejoice! Day-time load-shedding breaks for the weekend Eskom plans to suspend load-shedding for most day-time hours over the coming weekend. The power utility had already lowered the power cuts from stage 3 to stage 2 at 10:00 on Friday, 16 February 2024, due to the recovery of additional...
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Stage 2 continuous load-shedding until further notice

    Stage 2 continuous load-shedding until further notice Eskom will reduce load-shedding from stage 3 to stage 2 at 10:00 on Friday, 16 February 2024. The further reduction in the rotational power cuts was made possible by additional Eskom generating units returning to service, emergency reserve...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Ramaphosa says end of load-shedding "within reach", takes credit for rooftop solar uptake

    Ramaphosa says end of load-shedding "within reach", takes credit for rooftop solar uptake President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the worst of load-shedding is behind South Africa and that the end of the rotational power cuts is "within reach". Ramaphosa made these remarks in his 2024 State of the...
  20. Hanno Labuschagne

    Stage 1 for four hours and then stage 2 until further notice

    Stage 1 for four hours and then stage 2 until further notice Eskom will reduce load-shedding to stage 1 for four hours on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, before implementing stage 2 until further notice. The utility has been rotating between stage 2 day-time load-shedding and stage 3 during the...
  21. Jan

    Eskom expands load-limiting programme to more areas in Gauteng

    Eskom reveals more areas that can skip load-shedding Eskom is expanding its load-limiting project to more Gauteng areas after a successful pilot in Fourways and good reception in Riverside View. The load-limiting mechanism forms part of the Demand Side Management initiative, which aims to...
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