First Eskom load shedding this winter
Fin24.com 11 June 2014 Johannesburg – Deliberate power cuts, the first of this winter, took place countrywide on Wednesday night, electricity giant Eskom said. “Due to unavailability of some of our generators, we are implementing load shedding for an hour,” said spokesperson Andrew Etzin
South Africa's power grid 'severely constrained' – Eskom
Engineering News – ONLINE 11 June 2014 South Africa’s national power grid is severely constrained due to high demand and outages of someelectricity generating units, power utility Eskom said on Wednesday. “Eskom will utilise all necessary emergency resources at its disposal but
Eskom aims to buy 500 MW more from IPPs ahead of Medupi, Kusile ramp-ups
Engineering News ONLINE 05 June 2014 State-owned electricity utility Eskom will issue a tender soon for the procurement of an additional 500 MW of capacity from private generators, as part of a larger intervention to ensure supply security ahead of the introduction of new capacity from the Medupi, Ku
Reissued RFP for REIPP Fourth Bid Submission
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Eskom guarantees needed to unlock next IPP procurement phase
Engineering News – ONLINE 30 May 2014 Progress on the various electricity generation procurement programmes being overseen by South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) is now contingent on the new Cabinet approving further guarantees forEskom, which remains the single buyer of power generat
