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One of Karpowership's floating power stations
Shorter contracts should get Karpowerships past the finish line – Mantashe
26th January 2023 By: News24Wire

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe says cutting the proposed contract periods with Karpowership from 20 years to 10 years could help government realise its ambitions to procure... 


Congo LNG facility to be developed by Expro for Eni
25th January 2023 By: Darren Parker

Energy services provider Expro has entered into a long-term production solutions contract with Eni Congo, a subsidiary of multinational energy company Eni, for a liquefied natural gas (LNG)... 


The helium block at the Virginia gas plant
South Africa joins global ranks of liquid helium production thanks to Renergen project
23rd January 2023 By: Simone Liedtke

Natural gas and helium producer Renergen has produced its first liquid helium at its flagship Virginia gas project, in South Africa’s Free State province, making the country the world’s newest... 


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Loadshedding crisis
20th January 2023 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer outlines the reasons for power utility Eskom having to implement high levels of loadshedding so far this year; some of the short-term interventions that are... 


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Circular economy enables value-added by-products
20th January 2023 By: Nadine Ramdass

Nature-based solutions assist in creating a more circular economy and by-products from the treatment can create further value for the water treatment industry, says Rhodes University’s Institute... 


Kibo CEO and acting chairperson Louis Coetzee
Kibo to produce synthetic oil in addition to syngas
17th January 2023 By: Darren Parker

Aim- and AltX-listed renewable-energy-focused development company Kibo Energy will potentially introduce an additional revenue stream to its 2.7 MW plastic-to-syngas power plant, which resides... 


Ghana to use Energy Exemplar modelling software to determine energy landscape
13th January 2023 By: Schalk Burger

The Energy Commission of Ghana has signed an agreement to use energy modelling company Energy Exemplar’s modelling software to understand the entire energy landscape across Ghana, including gas and... 


Professor proposes agri, household waste is the answer to more electrification
12th January 2023 By: Marleny Arnoldi

A professor from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology has identified household and agricultural waste in South Africa as a valuable source of clean energy that can be deployed in... 


Energy department to oversee Eskom
9th January 2023 By: Bloomberg

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the energy department will take over responsibility for overseeing state utility Eskom Holdings, which has been failing to meet the nation’s power demand since 2008.... 


Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter
Eskom says police investigating alleged poisoning of CEO
9th January 2023 By: Reuters

South African power utility Eskom on Sunday said police were investigating whether an attempt was made to poison its outgoing CEO Andre de Ruyter. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan also... 


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Nersa given until Jan 12 to make a final decision on Eskom revenue application
21st December 2022 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division) has granted the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) an extension, to January 12, to make the final decision on Eskom’s revenue... 


Phase 2 of Renergen’s Virginia gas project awarded SIP status
14th December 2022 By: Simone Liedtke

Phase 2 of Renergen’s Virginia gas project awarded SIP status Natural gas and helium provider Renergen’s Virginia gas project’s Phase 2 is now a strategic integrated project (SIP) under the... 


A rooftop solar PV installation
Stats SA considers adding self-generated power to data set
14th December 2022 By: Bloomberg

South Africa’s statistics agency is considering including self-generated power in its monthly electricity-generation data as more households and businesses reduce their reliance on State-owned... 


A photo of solar panels, wind turbines and hydrogen installations
Timing of new jobs, skills development a just energy transition concern
8th December 2022 By: Schalk Burger

A just energy transition to a low-carbon economy in South Africa is expected to result in the loss of about 300 000 jobs, but the creation of about 815 000 new jobs up to 2050. It is also expected... 


South Africa faces decade of blackouts without gas, Wartsila says
28th November 2022 By: Bloomberg

Wartsila Oyj, a Finnish company that makes power plants, expects South Africa to face electricity outages for at least another decade unless it installs as much as $8 billion worth of gas-fired... 


Coal is king, insists Mantashe - as Ramaphosa is feted for green plan in Egypt
11th November 2022 By: News24Wire

As world leaders fete President Cyril Ramaphosa for his green agenda in Egypt, his minister of mineral resources and energy insisted this week that coal will continue to play a critical part in... 


Presidential Climate Finance Task Team head Daniel Mminele
Mminele outlines Just Energy Transition Investment Plan implementation vision
10th November 2022 By: Terence Creamer

The International Partners Group (IPG) of France, Germany, the UK, the US and the EU jointly endorsed South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP) during the World Leaders Summit... 


Projections for global temperature increase by 2100 above preindustrial levels based on targets and announcements from COP27.
Climate projections again point to dangerous 2.7 °C rise by 2100
10th November 2022 By: Bloomberg

The research partnership Climate Action Tracker (CAT) on Thursday released its latest projections of how greenhouse gas emissions may dangerously raise the global average temperature. The result is... 


African G20 seat to help push rich nations on climate pledges
10th November 2022 By: Bloomberg

The African Union (AU) expects to officially join the Group of 20 (G20) nations this month, providing the continent with another seat at the table with some of the world’s biggest polluters as it... 


Karpowership launches enhanced public consultations to detail benefits of its projects
9th November 2022 By: Schalk Burger

As part of floating power station company Karpowership South Africa’s environmental authorisation application, it has started an enhanced process of additional public consultations to ensure all... 


Al Gore addressing delegates at COP27
World’s carbon dioxide hotspots pinpointed by Al Gore-backed climate project
9th November 2022 By: Bloomberg

A consortium of dozens of research nonprofits on Wednesday launched a free online platform that details greenhouse gas emissions around the world across 20 economic sectors. Climate Trace, which... 


A large element of a gas plant which was dismantled and transported by Lovemore Bros being offloaded and then placed on a ship using heavy materials handling machinery at he Richards Bay port
Ten-week project cements supplier storage capacity
4th November 2022 By: Halima Frost

Heavy lifting and rigging specialists Lovemore Bros successfully concluded a substantial materials handling, stowage and delivery project of 73 parts weighing 307.1 t for a client based in Witbank,... 


Commission refers competition complaint against Vita Gas to the tribunal
2nd November 2022 By: Donna Slater

The Competition Commission has referred to the Competition Tribunal a complaint against Vita Gas for the alleged abuse of market dominance in the supply of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) from import... 


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Developing country carbon emissions clemency not applicable to South Africa – Nicholls
2nd November 2022 By: Donna Slater

South Africa cannot be allowed to breach its climate change mitigation measures and Paris Agreement declarations despite it being an emerging country that is dependant and still heavily reliant on... 


Moody’s boosts Eskom’s ratings outlook to positive after budget
1st November 2022 By: Bloomberg

Moody’s Investors Service improved its outlook on Eskom Holdings’s debt ratings to positive after South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced last week the government could take over... 


IEA executive director Fatih Birol
Energy crisis sparked by Ukraine war to speed up green transition – IEA
27th October 2022 By: Reuters

The drop in Russian fossil fuel exports after its Ukraine invasion this year will transform the global energy landscape for decades and can help to hasten a green energy transition, the... 


Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana
Higher revenue collections support consolidation as growth headwinds strengthen
26th October 2022 By: Terence Creamer

Better-than-expected revenue collection enabled Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to report an improvement in government’s fiscal position relative to the one forecast in the February Budget.... 


A photo taken at Eskom's Megawatt Park
Details of Eskom debt relief to be unveiled in Feb as loadshedding crimps growth outlook
26th October 2022 By: Terence Creamer

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has confirmed that government will take over between one-third and two-thirds of Eskom’s R400-billion debt, as intense loadshedding, which government expects to... 


Eskom debt plan in focus at South Africa's mid-term budget
25th October 2022 By: Reuters

South Africa's finance minister is expected to announce a plan to take on part of power utility Eskom's mammoth debt in a mid-term budget on Wednesday, although analysts say the legally complex... 


Rand takes big hit as investors worry about Godongwana speech, Beijing developments
25th October 2022 By: News24Wire

On Tuesday morning, the rand approached R18.50/$ - trading at levels last seen in early 2020 as the country digested the implications of the first hard Covid-19 lockdown. The currency is under... 


IEA executive director Fatih Birol
World is in its 'first truly global energy crisis' - IEA's Birol
25th October 2022 By: Reuters

Tightening markets for liquefied natural gas (LNG) worldwide and major oil producers cutting supply have put the world in the middle of "the first truly global energy crisis", the head of the... 


Eskom lenders hire PwC as power cuts grip South African utility
19th October 2022 By: Bloomberg

Lenders to Eskom Holdings have hired financial advisers as South Africa’s State-owned power utility restructures its business. The banks asked consultants at PwC to assist them with negotiations,... 


Mantashe restates his positions on energy at conference, but highlights nuclear
18th October 2022 By: Rebecca Campbell

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe delivered his third keynote address to his third international energy conference in Cape Town, in as many weeks, on Tuesday. This time it was to... 


Solar is cheapest energy option for Africa, but gas could be valuable
18th October 2022 By: Rebecca Campbell

The world was currently in the midst of an energy crisis. This affected countries differently, but it affected all countries. This was highlighted by International Energy Agency (IEA) deputy... 


Sabia tackles biogas promotion with new vigour
17th October 2022 By: Marleny Arnoldi

The Southern African Biogas Industry Association (Sabia) has laid out its industry advancement priorities after undertaking an in-depth review of the industry’s challenges over the last 18 months.... 


Court upholds environmental authorisation for Eskom gas plant
11th October 2022 By: News24Wire

The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has dismissed a bid to have the environmental authorisation for Eskom's proposed gas power plant in Richards Bay overturned, but has taken aim at the... 


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