Dr. Steve Lennon, Eskom’s Group Executive for Sustainability, was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award at African Utility Week’s Industry Awards in Cape Town recently. The Industry Awards celebrate the triumphs and successes of Africa’s power and water sectors, highlighting those companies and executives which have been responsible for pioneering new frontiers, pushing boundaries, […]
Engineers must lead from the top was the strong message from Dr. Pat Naidoo when he delivered his inaugural presidential address at the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE)’s annual general meeting earlier this year. “It is all about growing world class customer focussed engineers who must lead from the top.” In my […]
Delivering the SANEA lecture to an audience of about 100 at the Sasol auditorium in Rosebank, Johannesburg on the evening of 13 May 2014, Dr. Hendri Geldenhuys, a corporate specialist in smart grid technology at Eskom, discussed the importance of embedded generation (also known as distributed generation) to the overall energy supply in South Africa. […]
This month’s letters deal with the importance of a variety of generation sources all adding to the overall energy supply; appreciation for the opinions and suggestions made in the previous month’s lead editorial; and a reader’s view regarding the cost of nuclear. Send your letters to: energize@ee.co.za Our winning letter: re: Eskom’s CEO departs Sir With […]
While Eskom is struggling to keep the lights on and all electricity stakeholders are familiar with the challenges around coal supplies, schedule delays at Medupi and Kusile, and unprecedented levels of breakdowns on Eskom’s ageing fleet, there is a debate getting lost in the noise on where the industry is supposed to be heading. […]
Eskom would like to reassure the nation at large that its cash flow situation is stable. The utility manages its cash flow in a responsible manner and will always make sure that it has sufficient liquidity balances both in terms of actual liquid assets as well as the ability to easily issue financial instruments […]
In recognition of Eskom’s investment in the economic sustainability of emerging business partners, Eskom won the Enterprise and Supplier Development Award and the Socio-Economic Development Award at the 13th Oliver Empowerment Awards, which were held at Emperors Palace on 25 April 2014. Collin Matjila, the utility’s acting CEO, said that Eskom is proud of […]
Mogorosi Communications is hosting a Cable Anti-Theft Technologies Summit, to provide a platform for debate, and the sharing of ideas and experiences on 25 and 26 June 2014 at Emperors Palace, Kempton Park. Topics to be covered include: An overview on the scale of cable theft in South Africa The legal implications Examining the impact of cable […]
South Africa has adopted the “single buyer” model as the current electricity market model. The approach is similar to that followed in Brazil, being competitive auctions by government for new generating capacity for different technologies (such as renewables, gas, coal, etc.). The successful parties, being independent power producers (IPPs) from each of these bidding […]
While the construction of Eskom’s three new power stations has captured public attention, a vital part of the new-build programme has gone almost unnoticed – the huge project to strengthen the country’s national grid as these new plants are linked to the network. In addition to linking up the giant coal-fired plants, Medupi and […]
