SuperUser Account / Thursday, February 12, 2015 / Categories: AfriCoast Energy AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY Renewable energy engineering firm AfiCoast Engineers SA has announced that a new company, AfriCoast Energy, will now be responsible for all future renewable energy projects - particulary wind and solar - while it will also play a key role in guiding AfriCoast Engineers' current basket of renewable energy projects. Next Article AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED Print 53333 Rate this article: 4.0
SA has potential to be real player in the battery energy storage system market SuperUser Account / Thursday, April 2, 2026 0 0 Article rating: No rating South Africa has the potential to develop at least one, and maybe as many as three, internationally competitive gigafactories for the manufacture of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells. This is the conclusion of a recent report undertaken for the non-profit and public benefit Localisation Support Fund (LSF) by Ernst & Young Advisory Services (EY-Parthenon). The biggest market will be the local manufacture of battery energy storage systems (BESS). Need and Demand Read more
Opinion: Power beyond borders – regional trade could boost SA’s energy security SuperUser Account / Wednesday, April 1, 2026 0 5 Article rating: No rating Without regional trade, South Africa’s market will remain shallower, more volatile and less resilient to future power supply shocks, writes Africa GreenCo co-founder and chief commercial officer Cathy Oxby. Eskom is edging closer to a year without loadshedding, recently surpassing the 300-day mark – the longest stretch of uninterrupted power supply in years. Eskom Generation’s recovery plan, support from National Treasury’s debt relief for the utility and wider power sector reforms that have unlocked private generation capacity have all helped reduce power cuts. Read more
Cape Town tables draft three-year, R40-billion capital budget SuperUser Account / Wednesday, April 1, 2026 0 6 Article rating: No rating Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis this week tabled a proposed R40-billion, three-year infrastructure budget for the city. “To give you some perspective on the progress we have made – in the 2021/22 budget, when all of us were elected, the city’s capital budget was R6.1-billion,” said Hill-Lewis. Read more
First Chery vehicles to roll off Pretoria assembly line in mid-2027 SuperUser Account / Wednesday, April 1, 2026 0 7 Article rating: No rating Chery South Africa (SA) says its newly acquired plant in Rosslyn, Pretoria, will be recommissioned and retrofitted over the next 12 to 18 months, with the first locally produced Chery-branded vehicles to roll off the assembly line by mid-2027. The Chinese manufacturer says it plans to invest in the modification and upgrade of the former Nissan facility to quickly bring the factory to full production capacity. Read more
Cape Town seeks 500 MW from energy traders at below-Eskom rates SuperUser Account / Wednesday, April 1, 2026 0 5 Article rating: No rating The City of Cape Town has issued an energy trader tender that targets the procurement of 500 MW through power purchase agreements (PPAs), spanning one to ten years, from a variety of power generation technologies, including solar. Interested parties have until May 13 to respond to this tender, aimed at diversifying the city’s energy mix and protecting it against Eskom’s loadshedding schedule and the utility’s rising electricity charges. Read more