SMME Support as of July 2020 SMME Support as of July 2020 What the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 21, 2020 0 2750 Article rating: 5.0 The purpose of this presentation is to provide the information on what the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa. Read more
AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED SuperUser Account / Monday, April 13, 2015 0 56757 Article rating: 5.0 FOLLOWING significant growth in the renewable energy business, AfriCoast Engineers SA has developed a sister company to exapnd its vision. Read more
AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY SuperUser Account / Thursday, February 12, 2015 0 53826 Article rating: 4.0 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. Read more
Power outage hits Eikenhof booster station operations SuperUser Account / Thursday, July 16, 2026 0 1 Article rating: No rating A widespread power outage following an explosion on the 11 kV power lines supplied from City Power’s Orlando switching station is impacting the pumping operations of Rand Water’s Eikenhof booster station, which experienced a power failure in the early hours of Thursday morning. Rand Water on Thursday said that the power outage, which is impacting several areas in the South of Johannesburg alongside the Eikenhof booster station, interrupted pumping operations, as the station receives its electricity supply from a City Power substation. Read more
Eskom Green says PFMA approval enables fundraising and partnerships SuperUser Account / Thursday, July 16, 2026 0 1 Article rating: No rating Eskom Holdings reports that it has now secured the required approvals to establish Eskom Green as a wholly-owned renewables subsidiary that is able to raise funding and enter into public-private partnerships. The approvals were made in terms of Section 54(2) of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), alongside the applicable conditions of the Eskom Debt Relief Act, which placed restrictions on the raising of new debt for generation investments. Read more
MTN maintains best network status in Q2 SuperUser Account / Thursday, July 16, 2026 0 2 Article rating: No rating MyBroadband Insights’ 2026 Mobile Network Quality Report for the second quarter of the year has found that telecommunications group MTN continues to have the best mobile network in South Africa, securing the top network quality score at 9.96. The findings, are based on more than 350 000 speed tests conducted by mobile users, including a combination of crowdsourced data and dedicated drive tests of 20 000 km across South Africa’s major cities, towns and roads. Read more
75 MW Northern Cape hybrid renewables-battery project enters into operation SuperUser Account / Thursday, July 16, 2026 0 2 Article rating: No rating A large-scale hybrid renewable energy project able to supply 75 MW of dispatchable renewable electricity to South Africa’s national grid between 5:00am and 9:30pm daily has been officially inaugurated. Known as the Hydra project, the facility was procured under the so-called Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP), which was launched by the then Department of Mineral Resources and Energy during the peak of the country’s loadshedding crisis in August 2020. Read more
Exxaro celebrates commercial operation of Lephalale solar project SuperUser Account / Wednesday, July 15, 2026 0 12 Article rating: No rating Diversified resources group Exxaro Resources has, through its wholly-owned renewable energy business Cennergi, celebrated the commercial operations date (COD) milestone of the Lephalale solar project (LSP), one of the largest behind-the-meter renewable energy projects in South Africa. Located near Exxaro's Grootegeluk coal mine in Lephalale, Limpopo, the solar PV facility supplies renewable energy directly to the Grootegeluk mine through the mine’s main substation. Read more