Pay for electricity to help Eskom succeed, Mabuza urges

Communities must pay for electricity if Eskom is to succeed, Deputy President David Mabuza has said. “Doing so is in the best interest of our country,” he said on Tuesday morning at a Nedlac summit, which will see business, trade union and government leaders sign a social compact to support the ailing power utility.
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Local natural gas producer keeping its foot on the gas

Emerging natural gas and helium producer Renergen, who continues to keep its foot on the gas in South Africa, invited the Engineering News team to visit the company’s project site in the Free State, South Africa. Creamer Media journalist, Simone Liedtke, gives us the update.
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Social partners ink compact on reducing Eskom’s debt and facilitating ‘just transition’ …

Organised business, labour, community and government have officially signed a social compact in support of debt-laden Eskom that also endorses the need for a “just transition” for coal workers and communities as the electricity system begins to transition to higher levels of renewable energy and self-generation. The compact, which at its core endorses the need to reduce Eskom’s unsustainable debt burden, was signed at the twenty-fifth annual summit of the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac).
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EIUG urges members to apply for relief under negotiated pricing agreement framework

The Energy Intensive Users Group of Southern Africa (EIUG) has welcomed the ‘Short-Term and Interim Long-Term Negotiated Pricing Agreement (NPA) frameworks’ approved by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) and is encouraging its members to apply for these opportunities where applicable. Through previous NPAs, industrial and mining companies that rely heavily on electricity for production have secured favourable tariffs, typically indexed to the price of the commodity being produced and usually for a time-defined period.
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