The City of Cape Town has published a guide for commercial customers to sell their excess power back to the city, with the amount of energy that customers can produce limited by the size of their system, which is limited by the size of their connection to the city grid. The city has also published guidelines for residential customers wanting to sell excess power to it, but these will be available later this year, in addition to the existing credit offset against monthly account.
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) has voiced its support for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s leadership and firm commitment to fixing South Africa’s electricity crisis, as stated in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) of February 9.
Of significance, says SAWEA, is Ramaphosa’s plans to appointment a new Electricity Minister, dedicated to ending the prevailing electricity generation deficit, by safeguarding that the Energy Action Plan (EAP) is implemented, to ensure increased new power generation over the next five-year period.
Nonprofit association the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) says it broadly welcomes the pronouncements made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) last week. The association says it is particularly encouraged by the drive and retained focus demonstrated by Ramaphosa on the Energy Action Plan first outlined in July last year, which generally aligns with the EIUG’s views on these matters.
Business organisation Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) says neither the creation of a new post for an Electricity Minister, nor the declaration of a state of disaster, as announced during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address last week, provide a clear opportunity for business to partner to relieve the energy crisis. “It is extremely difficult for many businesses to make investments in the current environment. Loadshedding is the most obvious challenge,” says BLSA CEO Busi Mavuso.
UK nuclear fusion power company Tokamak Energy and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA, the government agency responsible for British nuclear fusion energy research and development) have jointly announced that the company is to build its prototype spherical tokamak, designated ST80-HTS, at the UK Fusion Cluster. The UK Fusion Cluster is located on the UKAEA’s Culham Campus, in Oxfordshire, in England. Culham is also the site of the Joint European Torus fusion experiment, which has made major …
South Africa’s Eskom, already named as the world’s biggest sulphur dioxide emitter, is seeking approval to release more of the pollutant linked to ailments ranging from asthma to heart attacks. The move is part of an attempt by the company to reduce the level of temporary blackouts the nation is facing as a result of its inability to meet demand.
Energy efficiency technology company Plentify CEO and co-founder Jon Kornik believes the solution to South Africa’s energy crisis goes beyond just bringing an end to loadshedding. Instead, he says, the focus should be on enabling the country to transition to a clean, affordable and reliable energy system.
The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) is conducting a loadshedding impact assessment to assist the organisation in its advocacy initiatives on energy.
“South Africa’s energy crisis is having devastating consequences for the manufacturing sector. As part of quantifying this impact on the metals and engineering sector, Seifsa is conducting a short survey,” the organisation says.
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