Eskom considers approaching Constitutional Court after SCA’s decision to set aside R5bn nuclear contract awarded to Areva.
Renewable energy is supplying electricity at around 40 percent cheaper than prices forecast for the Medupi and Kusile coal powered plants.
SA’s proposed carbon tax is designed to get polluting companies to change their behaviour and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Wheat farmers in the Western Cape stand to lose millions of rand in what they say is the worst drought in decades.
Tina Joemat-Pettersson says no nuclear deal has been signed, despite perceptions that she’s “married to the Russians”.
Nine industries in Philippi have been without power since Saturday because Eskom’s repair team had been “chased away” by people apparently protecting their illegal ...
Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson is set to expand South Africa’s renewable energy sector.
Three percent of South Africa’s farmers produce 95 percent of the country’s formal-sector food, according to a WWF report.
SA’s push for up to 10 nuclear power stations could bankrupt the government and Eskom, warns Earthlife Africa.
The solar power industry is ready to install 2 000MW of electricity every year for the next five years to help ease SA’s energy crunch.
Consumers will be paying 250 percent more for power than they did in 2008 if Eskom is granted the rate hike it has requested.
The Mother City is looking at buying electricity from independent power producers to help diversify the energy mix.
The nuclear industry says “political delays” have pushed the completion date for SA’s first new nuclear reactor from 2023 to 2025.
Greenpeace anti-nuclear activists unfurled a banner at the 2nd Nuclear Industry Congress Africa 2015 in Sea Point on Thursday.
The Energy Department will implement a new rebate scheme for consumers who install solar water geysers.
The private sector has submitted bids to the government to build 6 000MW of wind and solar power plants.
The solar water-heater industry has called on government to scrap the red tape that has brought it to a standstill.
SAa’s fledgling renewable energy sector contributed R5. 6 billion worth of benefits to the country last year.
Eskom’s rebate programme for solar water heaters isto be taken over by Department of Energy.
Eskom has warned that SA will have to live with the risk or power shortages until 2019.
The billions of rands spent by the government on the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme had not lifted many subsistence farmers out of poverty, parliamentary ...
Cape Town’s seaside mansions on the Atlantic coast are being sought after again.
It was a 'great tragedy' that a bill that would break up Eskom's power monopoly had not been considered by Parliament.
Although South Africa’s foot and mouth disease-free status was officially regained last week after being suspended for three years, export markets have not been ...
After a three-year ban on the export of red meat because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the international authorities have declared South Africa a disease-free ...