The development represents a milestone in Eskom’s strategy to add 2.5GW of new capacity by March 2025. Credit: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/munich ...

Despite the abeyance in load shedding for much of 2024, Eskom did not add any new generation capacity to the grid. Despite the abeyance in load shedding for much of 2024, Eskom did not add any new ...

Register here. If you prefer WhatsApp for updates, sign up to the BizNews channel here. Eskom has announced that Kusile Power Station’s Unit 6 was brought online at 16:45 on Sunday, 23 March. This ...

Eskom has once again implemented load shedding, this time at a less-severe level 2. It has again blamed the loss of generating units for the latest outages. “While we have made notable progress in our ...

As winter approaches, Eskom has got a major boost, with Kusile Power Station’s final generation unit adding 800MW to the electricity grid for the first time. The parastatal announced that Kusile ...

The basic line pushed by President Thabo Mbeki (and others) was that government underestimated the likely rate of economic growth and wrongly ignored Eskom's warnings that it needed to start building ...

Eskom has made a significant move towards alleviating load shedding in South Africa by adding 800MW of new capacity to the national grid. This achievement follows Eskom’s connection of Kusile ...

Notwithstanding Eskom’s historical ties to the apartheid government, for which it formerly apologised at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the dawn of democracy did nevertheless represent ...

Eskom has implemented stage 2 load shedding from just after 6pm on Wednesday until 5am Thursday morning. The parastatal’s spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena, said Eskom had lost several generation units.

Power utility Eskom has arrested six people, including senior staff, for their involvement in alleged fraudulent activity at the Kusile Power Station. This includes high-level procurement fraud ...

Energy regulator Nersa has officially approved the Eskom Retail Tariffs and Structural Adjustment (ERTSA) for 2025, which will see prices increased by 12.74% from 1 April 2025. The regulator has ...