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Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
Electricity Minister: ‘South Africa is making strides in addressing energy crisis’

The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity briefed the media on the Energy Action Plan
The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity briefed the media on the Energy Action Plan
[Lindsey Schutters] Minister Ramokgopa briefed the media on the Energy Action Plan and also responded to the VGBe report...

Posted 18 days ago | Like
Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
Fuel prices rise on back of higher global oil costs and weaker rand

Fuel prices rise on back of higher global oil costs and weaker rand
[Lindsey Schutters] Weaker rand and higher oil and transport costs have driven up the price of fuel for March...

Posted 24 days ago | Like
Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
CoCT launches Cash for Power programme alongside Energy Strategy unveiling

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis used the opportunity to criticise national government.
Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis used the opportunity to criticise national government.
[Lindsey Schutters] The City of Cape Town launched its Energy Strategy and opened applications for the Cash for Power programme...

Posted 1 month ago | Like
Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
#MI24: Green hydrogen is not coming to save the PGM industry

The panel at the Bowmans 2024 Mining Indaba Event included (from left) Dr Rebecca Maserumule, director for hydrogen and energy at DSI, Bart by Bart Nieuwoudt, lead legal specialist at Sasol, Stuart Heather-Clark, Africa Power Sector Energy Transition Lead at SLR Consulting, Claire Tucker head of our public law and regulatory practice, Bowmans.
The panel at the Bowmans 2024 Mining Indaba Event included (from left) Dr Rebecca Maserumule, director for hydrogen and energy at DSI, Bart by Bart Nieuwoudt, lead legal specialist at Sasol, Stuart Heather-Clark, Africa Power Sector Energy Transition Lead at SLR Consulting, Claire Tucker head of our public law and regulatory practice, Bowmans.
[Lindsey Schutters] The panel discussion at the Bowmans annual Mining Indaba event was dedicated to green hydrogen, with no mention of mining…

Posted 1 month ago | Like
Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
Ramokgopa: SA's electricity system is improving, but load shedding continues

Ramokgopa: SA's electricity system is improving, but load shedding continues
[Lindsey Schutters] Minister in the Presidency for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, updated the media on the implementation of the Energy Action Plan...

Posted 2 months ago | Like
Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
Eskom announces appointments to the National Transmission Company of South Africa board

Source: Jonathan Borba/Pexels
Source: Jonathan Borba/Pexels
[Lindsey Schutters] Eskom announces appointments to the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) board...

Posted 2 months ago | Like
NJ Ayuk
SOUTH AFRICA
African Energy Chamber is an outspoken advocate for African oil and gas

AEC: 'African nations must reject promises of aid and handouts to abandon their oil and gas as COP28 wraps up'
AEC: 'African nations must reject promises of aid and handouts to abandon their oil and gas as COP28 wraps up'
[NJ Ayuk] African Energy Chamber endorses an energy mix approach that allows Africa to use and sell its own hydrocarbon reserves to alleviate energy poverty...

Posted 3 months ago | Like
Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
Eskom launches Africa's largest battery storage system

Eskom's Hex battery energy storage system is the biggest in Africa. Source: Eskom
Eskom's Hex battery energy storage system is the biggest in Africa. Source: Eskom
[Lindsey Schutters] Eskom on Friday unveiled a first of its kind largest battery storage project in the African continent...

Posted 4 months ago | Like
Lindsey Schutters
SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa advances green hydrogen economy with BMW trial

South Africa advances green hydrogen economy with BMW trial
[Lindsey Schutters] Minerals Council of South Africa welcomes the launch of a pilot hydrogen vehicle project between BMW and Anglo American Platinum...

Posted 5 months ago | Like
Sindy Peters
SOUTH AFRICA
#YouthMonth: Invest in your career, never stop learning - Nomalungelo Mbokazi

#YouthMonth: Invest in your career, never stop learning - Nomalungelo Mbokazi
[Sindy Peters] Nomalungelo Mbokazi shares with us a bit about what excites her about her work at bpSA...

Posted 9 months ago | Like
Sindy Peters
SOUTH AFRICA
#EarthGathering: Unlocking SA's energy transition potential amid sector uncertainty

#EarthGathering: Unlocking SA's energy transition potential amid sector uncertainty
[Sindy Peters] While playing catch-up with more advanced economies in renewable energy adoption, investment has been slowed in South Africa by sector uncertainty...

Posted 10 months ago | Like
Sindy Peters
SOUTH AFRICA
Significant intervention needed to ease SA's electricity crisis - CSIR

Significant intervention needed to ease SA's electricity crisis - CSIR
[Sindy Peters] If everything stays exactly the same, the electricity crisis will get significantly worse in 5-10 years' time, says the CSIR's Warrick Pierce...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Sindy Peters
SOUTH AFRICA
#WomensMonth: Be receptive to learning more all the time - Hitachi Energy's Tshegofatso Monnamme

#WomensMonth: Be receptive to learning more all the time - Hitachi Energy's Tshegofatso Monnamme
[Sindy Peters] Tshegofatso Monnamme is a tender and quotation specialist for high voltage products at Hitachi...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Howard Feldman
SOUTH AFRICA
The Eskom crisis: Acknowledging positive change

The Eskom crisis: Acknowledging positive change
[Howard Feldman] Twelve of us were sitting around a table. It was a strategy session, and it was going well... until we stopped for lunch...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
SOUTH AFRICA
Eskom set to expand power lines without environmental authorisation, Ramaphosa says

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[Katja Hamilton] Broader reforms to establish a competitive electricity market will be expedited from the finalisation of the Electricity Amendment Bill to enable private sector investment...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Sindy Peters
SOUTH AFRICA
#EnlitAfrica2022: Private sector engagement encouraged as energy transition now inevitable

#EnlitAfrica2022: Private sector engagement encouraged as energy transition now inevitable
[Sindy Peters] Formerly African Utility Week, Enlit Africa kicked off in Cape Town this week with the just energy transition and the JETP top of the agenda...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Sindy Peters
SOUTH AFRICA
#BehindtheSelfie with Godfrey Marema, plant manager and MD for South Africa, Eaton

#BehindtheSelfie with Godfrey Marema, plant manager and MD for South Africa, Eaton
[Sindy Peters] We go behind the selfie with Godfrey Marema to find out more about his new role, his favourite trend in the sector right now, and his secret to success...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Sindy Peters
AFRICA
How Africa can ride the green wave and lift itself out of energy poverty

How Africa can ride the green wave and lift itself out of energy poverty
[Sindy Peters] Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for three-quarters of the global energy access deficit with an estimated access rate of 46% in 2019...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Nicci Botha
SOUTH AFRICA
Ramaphosa lifts embedded generation threshold to 100MW

Image source: Getty/Gallo
Image source: Getty/Gallo
[Nicci Botha] President Cyril Ramaphosa's surprise announcement that the embedded generation threshold from 1MW to 100MW, as the country reels from stage 3 and 4 loadshedding, is a major step...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Nicci Botha
SOUTH AFRICA
#EnergyIndaba: Private investment critical to meet Africa's energy needs

Francesco La Camera, DG, Irena
Francesco La Camera, DG, Irena
[Nicci Botha] Africa has the potential to harvest 1,000 times more than the continent's projected demands for electricity in 2040 from renewable sources...

Posted 3 years ago | Like
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