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This week: Eskom unveils its new coal-sourcing strategy as it pursues its R2-billion Optimum claim. South Africa’s Chamber of Mines says Mining Phakisa can help unlock mining and exploration...
Zest WEG Group is Africa’s leading supplier of low- and medium-voltage electric motors, variable-speed drives, softstarters, switchgears, transformers, motor control centres (MCCs), containerised...
Kusile power plant project, South Africa
Eskom and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa have set up a joint technical task team to review and optimise the blow-through procedure ahead of future blow-through tests on the Kusile units.
Zest Weg Group’s Shaw Controls Successfully Tests
Shaw Controls, a member of the Zest WEG Group, has announced that it has successfully concluded a programme of product tests on its low voltage range of panels at the SABS-NETFA laboratory. Tests...
Eni Electrical Opens Branch In Rustenburg
Zest WEG Group subsidiary, EnI Electrical has opened a branch in Rustenburg to provide electrical construction expertise on both small and large scale projects in the region. The new facility...
Auxiliary transformers ready for Kusile
Electrical equipment supplier Zest WEG Group has delivered 18 auxiliary transformers to State-owned power utility Eskom’s new 4 800 MW Kusile coal-fired power station, in Mpumalanga, and is ready...
Eskom receives new mobile distribution switching stations
Electrical equipment supplier Zest WEG Group has extended its market reach into mobile distribution switching, with the successful handover of four 22/11 kV mobile distribution switching stations...
SA company supplies second motors and drives order to DRC mine
Electric motors and drives supplier Zest WEG Group reports that it has supplied a second order of electric motors and drives for a mining project, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in the...
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DPWI welcomes R67m SIU recovery order against contractor
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has welcomed the R67-million recovery order obtained by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) against a plumbing contractor found to have...
TEDA’s new business plan sets targets to reverse declining investment facilitation
The City of Tshwane’s multiparty coalition government has approved the Tshwane Economic Development Agency’s (TEDA’s) new business plan, which seeks to improve investment facilitation for the...
Global EV sales set for record year; emerging market sales booming – BloombergNEF
BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) yearly ‘Electric Vehicle Outlook’ study expects nearly 22-million battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales – EV sales – this year, up 25% from last year, as the...