Joburg suburb wants to kick out Eskom and get private gas power
A section of the Linbro Park suburb near Sandton in Johannesburg wants to ditch Eskom and get electricity from a private power producer instead, Sunday newspaper Rapport reports.
Greenstone Energy has asked the National Energy...
Municipalities might become an obstacle in the way of private power
Municipalities could become a significant stumbling block for businesses that want to build private generating capacity to supply their own power.
Lifting the threshold for private power generation to 100MW has drawn praise...
Free State famers fighting takeover of private power network
A group of Free State farmers is fighting to keep the electricity distribution in their area out of the hands of dysfunctional municipalities.
Sunday newspaper Rapport has reported the Damplaas Kragbron utility in Petrus Steyn is...
Massive private power boost announced by Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that government will lift the threshold for embedded generating electricity capacity from 1MW to 100MW, allowing households and businesses to privately build much bigger self-generating power.
“We are...