karpowership

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom strips Karpowership of preferential grid access

    Eskom strips Karpowership of preferential grid access Eskom has stripped Karpowership and another preferred bidder in the country's emergency private power procurement programme of their preferential transmission grid access due to failure to reach financial close after nearly two and a half...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Ugly spat over BEE beneficiaries in Karpowership deal

    Ugly spat over BEE beneficiaries in Karpowership deal A group of local BEE partners for the government's controversial Karpowership deal are accusing Turkish company Karadeniz of trying to get them kicked out of the transaction in favour of other partners, Sunday Times reports. The empowerment...
  4. Jan

    Karpowership willing to reduce 20-year South African contract to five

    Karpowership ready to cut South African contract from 20 years to five Turkish power ship company Karpowership is willing to reduce the period on a contract for providing emergency power to South Africa with its floating gas-powered plants from 20 to five years. That is according to feedback...
    • Jan
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    • annika larsen e.tv eskom gwede mantashe karpowership load-shedding organisation undoing tax abuse (outa) zeynep harezi
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  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership's plans in South Africa back on track

    Karpowership's plans in South Africa back on track Karpowership will push ahead with bids to secure environmental approval to install two ship-mounted power plants in South African ports. South African environment minister Barbara Creecy dismissed appeals from five environmental groups that...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership misses another deadline

    Karpowership misses another deadline Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to install ship-mounted power plants in South African ports, is appealing a decision not to grant it more time to file an environmental permit to operate a 320MW plant on the country’s west coast. The company’s...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership gets government approval to moor ships in South Africa

    Karpowership gets government approval to moor ships in South Africa Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply electricity to South Africa, secured government permission to moor its ship-mounted power plants at three of the country’s harbours. A dispute with the port operator may delay...
  8. Jan

    Outa warns Karpowerships could cost South Africa R500 billion

    Karpowerships will cost South Africa half-a-trillion rand Using power ships to alleviate load-shedding could cost South Africa R500 billion, according to the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa). After several legal and environmental regulatory setbacks, the government's plan to use Turkish...
    • Jan
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    • democratic alliance (da) eskom karpowership load-shedding organisation undoing tax abuse (outa) powerships wayne duvenage
    • Replies: 39
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership gets good news from environments department

    Karpowership gets good news from environments department Karpowership secured permission from South Africa’s environment department to refile an application to moor a ship-mounted power plant in the eastern port of Richards Bay as the company’s stalled plans to affect a 1,220-megawatt...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom considers buying electricity from Karpowership plant in Maputo Bay

    Eskom considers buying electricity from Karpowership plant in Maputo Bay Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is considering buying electricity from a Karpowership plant to be located offshore Mozambique after declining to sign agreements to procure power from facilities the Turkish company planned to moor...
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership intent on supplying power to South Africa

    Karpowership intent on supplying power to South Africa Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply 1,220 megawatts of electricity to South Africa, said it doesn’t plan to abandon its work in the country even after setbacks to all three projects. The Department of Forestry, Fisheries...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership faces investigation over Saldanha Bay environmental application

    Karpowership faces investigation over Saldanha Bay environmental application Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply 1,220 megawatts of electricity to South Africa, had its environmental application to moor a ship-mounted power plant at the port of Saldanha Bay suspended after...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership loses first environmental appeal

    Karpowership loses first environmental appeal Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply 1,220 megawatts of electricity to South Africa, had one of three appeals against adverse environmental rulings rejected, a person with knowledge of the matter said, potentially delaying a solution...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership wants De Ruyter to retract statement implying it is corrupt

    Karpowership wants De Ruyter to retract statement implying it is corrupt Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply power to South Africa, said it will demand a retraction from Andre de Ruyter, the former chief executive officer of Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., because it said he had...
  15. Jan

    National state of disaster regulations - mobile operator obligations, feed-in tariffs, environmental exemptions

    Dlamini-Zuma releases Eskom load-shedding state of disaster regulations Cooperative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma gazetted regulations for South Africa’s national state of disaster over the energy crisis. The regulations designate “critical electronic communications and...
  16. Jan

    Outa launches interdict and legal action to overturn state of disaster

    Outa takes legal action over the electricity state of disaster The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) filed an urgent application requesting the overturning of the national state of disaster over load-shedding in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday, 16 February 2023. The civil action...
    • Jan
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    • eskom gwede mantashe karpowership load-shedding national state of disaster organisation undoing tax abuse (outa) stefanie fick
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. Jan

    Comparing a mass home solar rollout to R218-billion Karpowership deal

    Power ships vs home solar installations — the best value for R218 billion MyBroadband compared the price and effect of installing hybrid solar systems in South African homes instead of spending the money on the Karpowership deal, and solar is a viable alternative. While solar power has...
  18. Jan

    Outa on its case against the Karpowership deal

    Karpowership deal like shooting an ant with a shotgun — Outa The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is suing the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) over the distribution licences it granted Karpowership, saying the potential deal is like "shooting an ant with a shotgun". Outa...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership deal back in the spotlight after Ramaphosa's power crisis meeting

    Karpowership deal back in the spotlight after Ramaphosa's power crisis meeting South Africa made fresh inquiries about securing electricity supply from Turkey’s Karpowership as it battles its worst-ever power outages, according to people familiar with the situation. The approach follows a...
  20. Jan

    Ramaphosa's Eskom crisis meetings (re-)find what we already know - no quick fix

    Ramaphosa's crisis meetings fail to find short-term Eskom solution Despite holding crisis meetings throughout the past week, President Cyril Ramaphosa has failed to unearth any short-term plans to solve South Africa's load-shedding situation. Insiders told the Sunday Times that the briefings...
  21. Hanno Labuschagne

    Karpowership relaunching environmental approval application

    Karpowership relaunching environmental approval application Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply 1,220 megawatts of power to South Africa, will refile an application to the environment department in a bid to move its project forward at a time when the nation is suffering its...
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