Liquidity crunch again held up as key impediment to Eskom’s maintenance roll-out

Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer has once again highlighted the utility’s liquidity crunch as a key constraint to the execution of its much-vaunted reliability maintenance programme, which is seen as key to reversing the poor operational performance of its aged coal fleet. The fleet’s energy availability factor has fallen to 64% year-to-date, resulting in 2021 becoming South Africa’s worst year yet for load-shedding.
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Decarbonisation roadmap highlights economic benefits and international support for South Africa

Europe-Africa energy cooperation foundation Renewable Energy Solutions for Africa’s (Res4Africa’s) ‘Decarbonisation Roadmap for South Africa’ report highlights the economic benefits of modernising and decarbonising the country’s economy and demonstrates the broad international financial and technical support South Africa is receiving for raising and achieving its decarbonisation ambitions. These were some of the sentiments shared during the launch of the decarbonisation roadmap by regulators, researchers, financiers and energy industry representatives on December 7.
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Vedanta to support Zambia on green energy transition goals

Natural resources company Vedanta intends to support the Zambian government in its green energy transition goals, it confirmed on December 7. This decision was bolstered by the steps already taken by the government, including the appointment of the country’s first Green Economy and Environment Minister Collins Nzovu in September and are aligned to the further initiatives that have been presented, it said in a statement.
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