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Eskom on Friday announced the beginning of a pilot project that will give consumers more control over load shedding by using smart meters. The utility said selected consumers in Fourways in Gauteng will during Stage 1-4 load shedding get…

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Despite legislative requirements for equity in the application of load shedding, there is no oversight to ensure the pain is spread evenly among South African electricity users. When Eskom calls on local distributors – mostly…

South Africa will focus on fixing its dilapidated coal-fired power plants and the longer-term roll-out of at least 50 gigawatts (GW) of private renewable energy projects by the end of the decade to tackle crippling blackouts, according to…

South Africa’s state power utility temporarily suspended electricity cuts because of an improvement in available generation capacity. Outages will be halted from 8 a.m. on Tuesday until 4 p.m., when so-called stage 4 load shedding — the…

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Johannesburg will exclude key customers, essential services and some businesses from power cuts to reduce the fallout and attract investment. The exemptions will start gradually from early next month, City Power said in a statement on…

Eskom escalated rolling blackouts after a breakdown in a generation unit at Duvha Power Station and delays in returning units to service added to current capacity constraints on Sunday. Breakdowns are currently at 16 486 megawatts(MW) of…

There are two types of South Africans … those who attempt to mitigate the impact of load shedding on their daily lives as far as possible, and those who kind of just let load shedding happen to them. We all know the latter type – they’re…

Eskom’s implementation of a new load shedding schedule to increase eThewkini Municipality’s rolling blackouts will worsen economic losses for businesses that are still recovering from Covid-19, the July 2021 riots and the April 2022 floods…