Bad news for South Africa's economy
Blackouts have reduced the potential size of South Africa’s economy by almost a fifth since they started being imposed around 2008, according to an energy specialist at Africa’s biggest fund manager.
Outages can be expected every week this year and if the...
How to save Eskom and South Africa
Even as South Africa transitions to a low carbon future, whatever the technologies employed, a culture of proper reliability maintenance of all plant is needed, including coal-fired power stations, boilers and associated power generation equipment, throughout...
actom john thompson boilers
babcock ntuthuko engineering
chris yelland
electric power research institute (epri)
eskom
jan oberholzer
lungilemashele
sasol
Eskom running its power plants to death
Eskom's lenders are concerned as the power utility runs its working generation units excessively and does not complete the necessary maintenance.
According to Lungile Mashele, an energy expert at the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), the working...
department of mineral resources and energy (dmre)
development bank of southern africa (dbsa)
eskom
jan oberholzer
lungilemashele
mike rossouw
tommy wedderspoon