The Mossel Bay municipality has cut the ribbon on the Hartenbos Waste Water Treatment Works solar PV plant and microgrid project. Developed in partnership with Solareff and Element Consulting... 

JSE-listed real estate investment trust Growthpoint Properties will provide verified renewable energy certificates (RECs) to 26 branches of financial services firm Nedbank that use the power... 

Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has scolded South Africa’s coal industry for remaining largely silent during national debates over the country’s energy future, saying its... 

Research and consulting firm PBS Development Consulting has recommended the establishment of a dedicated ‘Just Transition Worker Fund’ to ensure South Africa’s climate transition addresses... 

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) registered 181 generation facilities during the second quarter (July to September) of the 2025/26 financial year. These facilities boast a... 

The Western Cape government has invited the private sector to partner with it as it targets a R1-trillion provincial economy by 2035, up from R664-billion in 2024. At the province’s first ever... 

The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) has welcomed government’s recent approval and release of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2025 and the revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)... 

As testament to its renewed commitment to sustainability and generating shared value for customers, global waste and wastewater management company EnviroServ has earmarked three key pillars to... 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has transferred legislation previously administered by the Mineral Resources and Energy Minister to Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe and Electricity... 

Infrastructure solutions provider Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is arranging a project development facility to support Africa’s largest gas-to-methanol plant, in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. The project... 

South Africa produced an estimated 3.6-million tonnes of uncollected domestic waste in 2020, and at least one-million tonnes of plastics and one-million tonnes of paper are not recycled every year.... 

Twelve African countries signed energy compacts during the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, held in Tanzania this week, signalling their intent to accelerate the pace of access to electricity and... 

Namibia’s state-owned electricity utility plans to raise $450-million by selling bonds in the country and raising development bank loans to help the southwest African nation boost power generation.... 

The global energy transition to a more equitable, secure and sustainable energy system is still progressing, but has lost momentum in the face of increasing uncertainty worldwide, international... 

Different renewable energy, energy storage and/or generator solutions can partially address small businesses' energy related challenges, and funding to install such solutions in small businesses is... 

State-owned power utility Eskom in July said it was pleased with the Johannesburg High Court judgment dismissing with costs, the interdict application by green energy supplier G7 Renewable Energies... 

In a water-scarce country such as South Africa environmental initiatives aimed at water management and marine ecosystem projects – such as Blue Bonds – are paramount and must be implemented, says... 

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde highlighted on Wednesday that South Africa still faces an energy crisis. Although loadshedding (scheduled rotating power cuts) has stopped, the country is still... 

Global renewable power capacity is predicted to increase by 4 600 GW, or more than double, by 2030, led by the rapid rise of solar PV, says intergovernmental organisation the International Energy... 

The Mossel Bay municipality has cut the ribbon on the Hartenbos Waste Water Treatment Works solar PV plant and microgrid project. Developed in partnership with Solareff and Element Consulting... 

JSE-listed real estate investment trust Growthpoint Properties will provide verified renewable energy certificates (RECs) to 26 branches of financial services firm Nedbank that use the power... 

The Western Cape government has invited the private sector to partner with it as it targets a R1-trillion provincial economy by 2035, up from R664-billion in 2024. At the province’s first ever... 

State-owned power utility Eskom in July said it was pleased with the Johannesburg High Court judgment dismissing with costs, the interdict application by green energy supplier G7 Renewable Energies... 

A hydro turbinecompany, based in Portland, Maine, in the US, has chosen Vesconite Bearings’lowest-friction material for the thrust bearings on its free-stream turbines. The material, Vesconite... 

Finnish near-shore wave energy technology company AW-Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kaoko Green Energy Solutions, in Namibia, for the development of renewable energy... 

The South African electricity market is undergoing a major change, with the development and implementation of the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM). “We’re currently in a... 

The upcoming launch of the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM) – currently scheduled for April 1 next year – is generally welcomed by representatives of the wind power industry,... 

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the contents of the latest edition of the Integrated Resource Plan for electricity, or IRP 2025, and what some of the reactions have been.