Kriel power station blaze reignites raging debate about Eskom’s ageing coal-fired power fleet
Kriel Power Station Unit 6 contributes 475MW to the power grid. With this unit temporarily offline, total unplanned outages ...
The Citizen3d
Communities in crisis: Blinkpan, Koornfontein without power for 4 days
Due to a failed Eskom-operated transformer situated at Komati Power Station, Blinkpan and Koornfontein have been left without electricity since Sunday, November 3, leaving communities on the brink of ...
South Africa’s next energy crisis could be worse than load-shedding
South Africa faces an energy crisis worse than load-shedding if it doesn’t establish concrete plans to replace 8,000MW of ...
The Taipei Times29d
S Africa offers a lesson on how not to shut down a coal plant
The cold corridors of South Africa’s once-mighty Komati coal-fired power plant have been quiet since its shutdown in 2022 in what was trumpeted as a pioneering project in the world’s transition to ...
pv magazine International4d
Eskom secures licenses for 125 MW of solar
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has granted licenses for two solar projects to be operated by Eskom. Tenders ...
Moneyweb16d
Will SA ever kick its coal addiction?
Marokane conceded on a previous occasion that the 2022 closure of the Komati coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga – and the focus on renewables on the same site – was handled badly and ...
The Star6d
S. Africa offers a lesson on how not to shut down coal ops
Middelburg, South Africa: The cold corridors of South Africa’s once-mighty Komati coal-fired power plant have been quiet since its shutdown in 2022 in what was trumpeted as a pioneering project ...