Diesel has become South Africa’s shadow infrastructure system by compensating for failures in electricity generation and freight rail.
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If conditions for private investment in the transmission infrastructure are not put in place, it’s likely that loadshedding will return in 2029.
One thing is certain: there will be ongoing contestation over the path and pace of South Africa’s electricity reforms.
Solar energy adoption is booming in South Africa, but it’s mostly benefiting wealthier, white communities.
By analysing minute-by minute data, we can pinpoint the moment where it all went wrong for Spain’s power grid.
Robust systems, decisive moves by the authorities and responsible reactions from the public were all responsible for averting catastrophe.
A power surge caused a massive nationwide power cut, but the root cause is still unclear.
South Africa’s new electricity law is good news for electricity market reform. But big hurdles still need to be overcome before success is achieved.
On the day of a blackout, a trial of vehicle-to-grid technology proved both the capacity of electric vehicles to support grid stability and the importance of exactly when vehicles are charged.
Power outages in South Africa pose a threat to employment.
Electricity networks in cities need the biggest overhaul – but the public can help.
After 30 years of democracy, South Africa is in a deep electricity crisis which can only be solved if the government moves speedily to set up solar and wind plants.
Mozambique has large gas reserves and a big hydropower generating dam. It exports 90% of this electricity, leaving small businesses facing frequent power cuts and disrupting their work.
Some work is already being done to enhance the tourism sector’s environmental sustainability.
South Africa’s fiscal situation is arguably at its worst in the post-apartheid era but the proposed solutions are contentious.
Any remedies to the South African power crisis initiated now – or under development – are not going to have a significant impact this year.
South Africa could end power blackouts if it implemented a plan to balance renewable energy capacity, time-of-use tariffs and ended the power utility’s monopoly.
The era of stocking pantries and keeping our fridges and freezers full is over.
South Africa’s courts are likely to set a high bar in cases brought against the government’s most recent state of disaster declaration.
South Africa’s minister of finance should have used the bailout of Eskom to fast-track its split and introduce the private sector into the electricity sector.
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