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Are you wondering what is the outlook for solar PV and battery energy storage in South Africa now that load shedding is receding – residential, commercial, industrial, mining, agricultural and utility scale? Join the experts and find out here: https://conta.cc/46TeIjk
Roundup of major energy and electricity news and developments in South Africa
22 July - 4 August 2024
https://conta.cc/4fvsFYM
1. Climate Change Act – signed into law, but not yet operational.
2. Regulator rejects preferential grid access for public sector renewable energy projects.
3. Sasol to appeal judgement declaring NERSA’s gas pricing methodology unlawful.
4. Scandal involving refurbishment of PetroSA’s offshore gas assets for Mossel Bay.
5. Gas condensate discoveries off southern Cape coast abandoned by TotalEnergies.
6. Eskom had sufficient generation reserve capacity to place 2000 MW in “cold reserve”.
7. Energy poverty and inequality prompts major review of tariffs, pricing and subsidies.
Energy and ICT sector news and announcements from EE Business Intelligence Energy, electricity and ICT for Africa News and announcements from EE Business Intelligence Issue 122 Aug 2024 You are rece
Roundup of major energy and electricity news and developments in South Africa
8 July - 21 July 2024
https://conta.cc/4bRRdIy
1. Government commits to ultra-aggressive approach to rollout of renewable energy.
2. Minister vows to confront local government electricity service delivery failures head on.
3. Largest wheeling project in South Africa commissioned, with others in the wings.
4. Shock opposition by Eskom Distribution to licencing of electricity traders by NERSA.
5. Further electricity price increases forecast as Eskom losses continue.
6. Government approves life-extension, and plans new nuclear amidst growing opposition.
Energy and ICT sector news and announcements from EE Business Intelligence Energy, electricity and ICT for Africa News and announcements from EE Business Intelligence Issue 121 Jul 2024 You are receiv
Views on the proposed 2400 MW nuclear new-build in South Africa…
by Chris Yelland CEng, managing director, EE Business Intelligence
https://www.eebi.co.za/articles/post/2305269/views-on-the-proposed-2400-mw-nuclear-new-build-in-south-africa
A new nuclear procurement in South Africa providing 2400 MW of inflexible, steady nuclear power from two 1200 MW pressurised water reactors by 2035 (if we are lucky) will be as good as useless in a power system with some 70 000 MW of variable wind and solar power capacity by that time.
The annual AMEU Affiliates Business Leadership Breakfast will be held on 23 August 2024 at 07h00 until 10h00 at the Johannesburg Country Club, Woodmead. Business leaders of companies interested in the municipal electricity sector are invited to attend.
Roundup of energy and electricity news and developments in South Africa: 24 Jun - 7 Jul 2024: https://conta.cc/3XSK8Us
1. Separation of DMRE into DMPR and DEE, and appointment of ministers. 2. TotalEnergies may exit gas projects off the southern coast of South Africa. 3. NERSA approves municipal electricity price increases for 1 July 2024. 4. Outrage grows at City Power R230 fixed charge for prepaid electricity customers. 5. Eskom celebrates 100 days with no loadshedding. 6. 10% import duty applied to solar PV modules offset by 10% rebate scheme.
Comparison of City Power’s 2024/25 prepaid electricity tariffs and increases with those of Eskom
by Chris Yelland, MD at EE Business Intelligence and Energy Advisor to OUTA
https://www.eebi.co.za/articles/post/2303988/comparison-of-city-power-s-2024-25-prepaid-electricity-tariffs-and-increases-with-those-of-eskom
A storm of protest is brewing after City Power put up its prepaid electricity prices to the majority of its poor and indigent customers by 6 to 12 times the inflation rate, and well above Eskom’s prepaid tariff rates for the poor.
Are you looking for a MC, keynote presenter, panellist or presenter for you corporate event, conference, seminar, webinar or workshop? Contact Chris Yelland [email protected], energy analyst and commentator focussing on energy and electricity issues in Southern Africa. Biography here: https://www.eebi.co.za/chris-yelland
Johannesburg’s indigent households set to be hammered with massive electricity price increases - by Chris Yelland
The vast majority of indigent and other poor households served by City Power, the municipal electricity distributor for the City of Johannesburg, are in for a nasty surprise...
Major structural changes in prepaid meter electricity tariffs and tariff rates have been approved by the council of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and submitted to Nersa for approval for implementation from 1 July.
LISTEN: Load shedding vs load reduction - what’s the difference?
Tshwane has become the latest metro in Gauteng to implement load reduction during peak hours - and according to an energy expert, it's raising some red flags
Invitation: Webinar: Wake-up call to business and industry: Implications and impacts of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM) on SA and the continent; 6 June 2024; 14h00 to 16h30; free-of-charge; all welcome. Full details:
https://conta.cc/4bGyKPm
This webinar covers power to heat and thermal energy storage as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuel-based process heat, and innovative business models with examples for specific production sites. Details here: https://conta.cc/3Wtl6us
Leaving a legacy in renewable energy: The story of a successful South African energy entrepreneur - from beginning in the bakkie brigade, to sale of 87% share in the business to the biggest green energy investment fund in the world for R4bn - by Mariam Isa & Chris Yelland.
https://www.eebi.co.za/articles/post/2298582/leaving-a-legacy-in-renewable-energy-interview-with-johnny-cullum-outgoing-ceo-of-mulilo-energy
The electricity supply industry in SA is in a state of flux, including a significant reduction in the iload shedding. Electricity customers may be wondering what is going on.
https://www.eebi.co.za/articles/post/2295327/some-insights-on-load-shedding-and-the-state-of-the-electricity-supply-industry-in-south-africa
South Africa needs forward-looking, environmentally concious, real engineers with a "can do" attitude, and not backward-looking naysayers and doolittles, that find every reason to do nothing about environmental protection, pollution and climate change.
Webinar: Invitation: Lessons from Australia: Integrating high levels of renewable energy and distributed energy resources (DER) on the grid. Wed 27 Mar 2024, 09h00 to 11h15, Free-of-charge, all welcome. Full details: https://conta.cc/3TuELqR
Join EE Business Intelligence, GE vernova, AMEU, City Power Johannesburg, and Cape Town electricity for a webinar on 5 Mar 2024 on managing distributed renewable energy and battery energy storage resources. Details here: https://conta.cc/3OOOZAZ
Invitation to Webinar: "Energy efficiency, cogeneration and harnessing recoverable energy – the cleanest and least-cost opportunities to meet demand".
DATE: 22 Feb 2023; TIME: 12h00 to 14h30 SAST; COST: Free-of-charge; FULL DETAILS: https://conta.cc/47RANxK
Rest in peace, Roger Lilley, former editor of Energize magazine
It is with great sadness I must advise that Roger Lilley, a friend, colleague and former editor of Energize magazine, passed away on 9 February 2024 following complications after heart surgery.
Roger Lilley joined EE Publishers from NXP Semiconductors / Philips SA to take up the position of editor of Energize magazine in early 2013, and this proved to be one of the best appointments we ever made.
Roger was a quiet professional who just put his head down and got stuck into things without any kind of fuss. As an electrical technologist, Roger was truly a problem solver, not a problem maker, and he dealt quietly and efficiently with all the challenges and tasks assigned to him in an incredibly dedicated manner.
He always got the job done on time by solving or working around any issues arising, in order to meet tight and demanding publishing deadlines.
Roger was also very well-liked by his peers at EE Publishers as he was sociable and friendly, and was always approachable, helpful and willing to share information and the solutions he used to deal with any problem or another that may arise. He also worked seamlessly and collaboratively with his colleagues in the advertising sales department and the production/publishing department.
Roger was one of the quickest and most diligent of those working in the editorial department, and it was an absolute pleasure and indeed a privilege and honour to have known him, to have worked with him, and to have had him on the staff of EE Publishers as an editor.
When EE Publishers closed at the end of November 2019, the titles Energize and EngineerIT were sold to Now Media, and I had absolutely no hesitation in recommending that Now Media take on Roger Lilley as editor of Energize under the new publisher. I know that Roger’s time at Now Media from the beginning of 2020 until his tragic passing on 9 February 2024 was equally appreciated.
On behalf of my co-director at EE Publishers, Irene Blythe, and myself, as well as the former staff of EE Publishers, I would like to express my heartfelt condolences to Roger’s wife, children, family, friends and associates.
And to Roger, may I say:
Roger, you were an inspiration to us, and we thank you most sincerely for the wonderful times we had together. Go gently into the good night, and rest in peace.
Chris Yelland and Irene Blythe
Webinar invitation:
Providing flexible power generation and meeting the needs of industrial gas users in South Africa from mid-2026.
DATE: 13 Feb 2024; TIME: 12h00; PLATFORM: Zoom; COST: No cost, all welcome. Full details: https://conta.cc/498wxLA
Join the EE Business Intelligence webinar on 30 Jan 2024 to hear how Electricity Credit Tokens unlock much greater distributed generation investment in SA through virtual wheeling and trading of electricity. Regiter here: https://conta.cc/3uI6UC5
Join the EE Business Intelligence webinar on 26 Oct 2023 at 12h00: Electricity market development: The transition to a multi-market model – the urgency and the implications. Free-of-charge, all welcome. Full details and registration here: https://conta.cc/3M5gJjm
Innovating private sector companies are driving fairer and more inclusive solutions which will benefit all energy stakeholders – Eskom, IPPs, traders, business, municipalities, and their “smaller” electricity customers - by Chris Yelland and Linsey Dyer
Join EE Business Intelligence, Discovery Green, Mezzanine (Vodacom Group) and Mulilo Energy at a webinar tomorrow. Free-of-charge. All welcome. Full details and registration here: https://conta.cc/3LSZMsg
Join Andre Nepgen, head of Discovery Green, Jacques de Vos, CEO of Mezzanine (Vodacom Group), and Jan Oberholzer, new chairman of Mulilo Energy, at a webinar on electricity trading to industrial, business, SME and residential customers:
https://conta.cc/45XD1eQ
Invitation to webinar:
"Generation asset performance monitoring, reporting & PPA compliance" organised by EE Business Intelligence in association with Orion Asset Management, Cresco, Harmattan Renewables and ED Platform. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gxOXdAV8TI2oPun1TNusVw
Pathways towards cusomer choice and a liberalised electricity supply industry... Join the (free) webinar: 12h00 to 14h30, 17 August 2023: FROM SINGLE BUYER TO ELECTRICITY MARKET - THE VALUE OF TRADERS. Register: https://conta.cc/46QeWHK
VIDEO RECORDING OF WEBINAR: Power plant OEMs: Their role in improving the performance of Eskom coal-fired power stations - with opening keynote by Silas Zimu, special advisor to the Mnister of Electricity https://youtu.be/e0NRDkh_P60 via YouTube and EE Business Intelligence
In February 2023, National Treasury announced that it had appointed the German VGBE Energy Consortium to assess and investigate the operations of Eskom’s coa...
Analysis:
Eskom held over a barrel of diesel
https://www.eebi.co.za/articles/post/2190279/eskom-held-over-a-barrel-of-diesel
by Mariam Isa and Chris Yelland, EE Business Intelligence
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