JOHANNESBURG – From this morning, South Africans will have to dig even deeper into already shallow pockets to settle their electricity bills. Customers receiving power directly from Eskom will be charged over 15.6% more. The High Court ruled that the utility could raise a further R10 billion as part of its allowable revenue to the…
JOHANNESBURG – As Eskom restores power to large parts of Tshwane on Thursday morning, its technicians have been dispatched to Midrand, Soweto and Lonehill to deal with network faults there. The faults are affecting parts of these communities and the utility can’t yet give an estimated time of restoration. It has apologised to customers who’ve…
Johannesburg – Some residents of Emfuleni Municipality which has an outstanding debt with Rand Water, not only have to use polluted water, some have been experiencing water shortages since November last year while others complained that the problem started only in the last few weeks. Emfuleni, which was placed under administration in 2018 due to…
South Africans are in for a hefty rise in the price of electricity, as energy regulator Nersa has agreed to Eskom increasing its tariff by over 15% for the 2021/2022 financial year. The agreement between Nersa and Eskom came after the power utility won a case in the high court in Pretoria in October 2020,…
Pretoria – A staggering R12.5 million – that’s the amount spent by the City of Tshwane last year to repair its electricity infrastructure after it was damaged by the impact of Eskom’s load shedding. Repairs for electric faults were done on the primary sub-stations such as Ifafi, Florapark, Parktown, K3, K1, Phumlani and the 132kV…
Eskom has posted a net profit after tax of R 83 million in the interim financial period to end off September, a period characterised lower demand for electricity due to the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic activity. In a statement released on Monday, the power utility described the past six-month’s operating environment as…
The utility said in a statement on Thursday there was no load shedding yet, but the situation could change. JOHANNESBURG – Eskom on Thursday warned of a high probability of load shedding as the system is constrained. The utility said in a statement there was no load shedding yet, but the situation could change. “In…
On Tuesday, government gazetted new regulations that demand that buildings’ energy efficiency must be declared. Owners must display a certificate of the building’s “energy performance” at the entrance of the building. The energy performance refers to the net energy consumed in kilowatt hours per square meter per year – including for heating, hot water heating,…
Eskom chief executive André de Ruyter is pushing ahead with the unbundling of the debt-ridden state power utility, in a bid to attract private investment. De Ruyter said in a Digital African Utility Week webinar on Tuesday (24 November), that the unbundling will include the full separation of the utility’s three divisions: generation, transmission and…
South Africa’s ruling party has proposed using state-run unemployment and compensation fund surpluses to help rescue the country’s debt-laden power utility, raising the ire of labor unions. In discussion documents released late last week, the African National Congress said the Unemployment Insurance Fund and the Compensation Fund had combined surpluses of 225 billion rand ($15…