Treasury receives Eskom’s draft price proposal
Business Day Online: 26 June 2012: THE Treasury has confirmed receipt of Eskom’s draft multiyear price determination (MYPD3) proposal, but analysts bemoaned plans to raise prices further over five years. Eskom is looking to increase electricity prices from 50,3c/kWh to 97,51c/kWh in five years’ time,
South Africa extends deadline for first-round renewables winners
Recharge News Online: 26 June 2012: South Africa has extended the financing deadline for first-round renewables projects, as its government effectively admitted it had taken too long over regulatory approvals. Pretoria will push the 30 June cut-off back by at least two weeks due to “logistic
Eskom waits for comment on tariffs
Business Report Online 25 June 2012: Eskom had submitted a draft application for the third multi-year price determination (MYPD3) of tariffs to the National Treasury and the SA Local Government Association for comment, it said on Friday. Although the draft application was not yet a public document, Eskom
Eskom to apply for price increases
Business Report Online 22 June 2012: Eskom will apply to the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for the third multi-year price determination (MYPD 3) before the end of the year, the parastatal said on Friday. The MYPD 3 would set out electricity prices for the period beginning April 1, 2013. “The
Dust-up over Gigaba's coal plan
23 June 2012: Business Live Online:Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba’s proposed strategy to secure lower-priced and better-quality coal for Eskom could include the implementation of export quotas and legislating the quality of coal supplied to the state-owned utility. There are concerns that
Clean Power Africa In Cape Town To Focus On New Opportunities In Hydro And Solar Industries
21 June 2012: Clean Power Africa: The Clean Power Africa conference and exhibition in Cape Town in September will focus on new opportunities in the clean energy sectors such as retrofitting hydropower to current dams and helping the mining industry to use excess water to provide onsite power. South Afric
SA should consider upscaled CSP roll-out plan – BrightSource
22 June 2012 Engineering News Online: Concentrating solar power (CSP) could play an important role in South Africa’s future energy generation capacity, by offering a utility-scale, carbon-free generation solution, BrightSource Energy business development consultant Daniel Schwab said on Wednesday. At
DoE tests market appetite for small-scale renewables projects
Engineering News Online 22 June 2012: South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) has initiated the long-awaited process to procure electricity from small-scale renewable energy projects of between 1 MW and 5 MW. The department has indicated that it intends procuring 100 MW from small-scale wind, solar ph
Eskom moves to secure five-year tariff visibility as it initiates MYPD3 process
Engineering News Online 22 June 2012: Eskom confirmed on Friday that its third multiyear price determination (MYPD3) application to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) would be for a five-year period, rather than the three-year horizon that prevailed during the first two MYPD periods. In
EPIA- Presentation from International PV Association Meeting-Self-consumption and Net-metering schemes in Europe- 13 June 2012
13 June 2012: At the International PV Association meeting held at the Intersolar conference in Munich on 13 June 2012, Gaëtan Masson presented on self-consumption and net-metering schemes in Europe. The presentation can be downloaded here.