Siemens South Africa  (SA) is targeting international markets with its fourth-generation 11 MW fully automated direct current (DC) containerised trolley assist substation – the Siemens E House. One... 

Work is progressing at the project. 

Eskom has announced that good progress has been made on Medupi's Unit 5. 

Energy distribution, automation, communication, transportation and underground mining infrastructure roof support systems manufacturer and supplier Becker Mining South Africa will be showcasing its... 

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric will launch a number of its latest integrated mining solutions, which form part of the company’s Eco Structure method to improve energy consumption... 

South Africa’s automotive industry has a specific need for robust and heavy-duty linear overhead materials-handling solutions, which has seen specialist crane and related components manufacturer... 

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... 

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. 

Eskom and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa have set up a joint technical task team to review the blow-through procedure ahead of future blow-through tests on the 11 other Medupi units. 

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... 

The Medupi power station has received the Pressure Equipment Regulation Certificate of Registration for Unit 6 – the first Medupi boiler set to be connected to the national electricity grid. 

Marthinusen & Coutts, a division of Actom, was successful in being awarded the contract for a second synchronous condenser unit for the Société nationale d’électricité  in the Democratic Republic... 

Newly established Boksburg-based pumps supplier Integrated Pump Technology was named in June as the exclusive Southern Africa distributor for the world’s third-largest submersible pump manufacturer... 

Eskom has reported that work is progressing well on Unit 6, which is scheduled to be synchronised at the end of the year. 

Water treatment company Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies South Africa announced in April that it has been awarded the contract to upgrade Mangaung metropolitan municipality's Maselspoort... 

Eskom has offered a detailed timeline for the synchronisation of Medupi Unit 6, which is officially scheduled for December 15, 2014. 

State-owned power utility Eskom’s Power Delivery Projects (PDP) portfolio, currently valued at about R37.5-billion as of 31 March this year, and which falls under the power utility’s Group Capital... 

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... 

Eskom has reported that the Unit 6 boiler feed pump one-directional testing has been successfully completed. 

Eskom has provided an update on the power plant. 

Schneider Electric, a specialist in energy management, has dedicated itself to safe and simple low voltage switchboards up to 3200 A. “OurPrisma Plus solution is a modular and prefabricated... 

Building on its commitment to be closer to customers in Africa, General Electric (GE) and China-based high-voltage (HV) transmission equipment manufacturers XD Electric Group have partnered to... 

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... 

The Zest WEG Group is progressing toward the hot commissioning phase of the biggest medium voltage (MV) Variable Speed Drive (VSD) unit ever supplied by its holding company, the WEG Group,... 

The risk of flooding underground while mining is a reality and needs to be properly addressed by mining companies, warns South Africa-based submersible slurry pump manufacturer Hazleton Pumps.... 

SunEdison broke ground at the Soutpan site on January 29, 2013. 

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa  

Construction at the project remains suspended. 

Murray & Roberts Cementation’s acquisition of Concor in 2006 saw the leading mining contracting company inherit several underground coal mining projects and a fleet of flameproof coal mining plant 

There’s a brand new spirit creeping into Toyota under the watchful tutelage of the company’s charismatic President and Chief Executive, Akio Toyoda 

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa  

Illegal protest action at the Medupi power station brought work on the project to a standstill on January 17. 

Siemens is on track with its work for State-owned power utility Eskom’s Kusile power station, but is facing challenges, owing to delays in the civil works at both project sites. 

Siemens is on track with its work for State-owned power utility Eskom’s Medupi power station, but is facing challenges, owing to delays in the civil works at the site. 

Aim- and JSE- listed Jubilee Platinum announced on Thursday that the value of its 58.6%-owned South African subsidiary Power Alt’s power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eskom had been increased from...