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Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Unplanned outages at state power utility Eskom Holdings Ltd.’s generating fleet fell to less than 16,000 megawatts in the past two months, compared with more than 18,000 megawatts previously,…

South Africa’s state power utility increased the amount of scheduled outages because of delays in returning generating units to services and breakdowns at five other plants. So-called load shedding is being increased to stage 5 — in which…

South Africa’s electricity minister said there will likely be fewer blackouts from this week, after bad planning led to the worst power cuts in a month amid a cold snap. More than 5 000 megawatts of generating capacity is expected to…

Utility companies prepare for heat waves and try to accommodate the resulting increased energy demands, so if yours is asking you to cut back your electricity usage, it likely has a very good reason to do so. The best thing…

Microsoft has confirmed that the service outages for Outlook, OneDrive, and other Microsoft 365 services on June 5 were caused by a malicious attack. Hackers flooded Microsoft’s servers with denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and brought…

A series of services disruptions experienced by users of Microsoft Azure, OneDrive and Outlook were the result of a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack conducted by a threat actor tracked by Redmond as Storm-1359 (aka…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Microsoft sign is shown on top of the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 19,2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) - Microsoft (NASDAQ:) said on Friday that the outages that affected…

Mozambique will supply electricity-starved South Africa with 100 megawatts of power immediately and an additional 600 megawatts in six months’ time, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said. A further 1 000 megawatts will be…

Johannesburg’s City Power is in talks with Eskom to reduce outages. City Power officials have proposed that the duration of blackouts in Johannesburg, home to more than five million people, be cut to two hours at a time to help businesses…

South African Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa proposed a “mega bid window” for the procurement of renewable energy to curb rolling blackouts, even as previous plans to build clean power generation have been delayed. Ramokgopa…