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South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, announced that Unit 2 at the Kusile Power Station has attained commercial operation status.

South Africa, Welkom: Two critical Eskom electricity towers were severely damaged by recent storms near Welkom, leaving the city powerless on 26 October.

South Africa, Johannesburg: Eskom plans to increase transmission infrastructure with additional high-voltage lines and transformer capacity.

Eskom is set to resume its work to complete construction of the final leg of the approximately 123 km of transmission power line.

South Africa’s power utility, Eskom has implemented Stage 2 loadshedding nationwide, with effect from 8 AM to 10 PM on 13 August.

An electricity transformer the size of a house is being delivered to a National Grid substation – and is passing through Nottinghamshire.

South Africa: Eskom has noted a significant rise in network overloading resulting from illegal connections across the high density areas of Gauteng.

Stolen, illegally installed Eskom transformers have been removed by the power utility in an operation with the Public Order Police and the Police Service.

South African Eskom’s equipment failure rate, following the implementation of its load reduction initiative, is showing a positive trend.

Eskom will implement measures to restrict electricity supply in Gauteng in order to reduce the costs associated with equipment failure.

According to Eskom, Medupi’s Unit 3 has since 5 May 2020, reached the full generation capacity of 793 MW.

An Eskom employee and a former Eskom contractor employee arrested for colluding and installing a breaker in a mini-substation without authorisation.

Eskom technicians had to suspend efforts to restore a power outage in Orange Farm after being threatened by “illegal operators” in the community stealing electricity.

South Africa: Eskom announced this morning that it will continue with stage 2 loadshedding from 9:00 today (Friday) until 6:00 on Monday 3 February.

Eskom Chairman Jabu Mabuza took the responsibility for Eskom’s failure to meet the previously made commitment – no loadshedding until 13 January 2020.

South Africa: The South African ministry of public enterprises announced Andre de Ruyter as Eskom’s new Group Chief Executive.

South Africa: South Africans were advised by state-owned enterprise Eskom that emergency loadshedding would be implemented as unplanned breakdowns were above 10,500 MW, impacting the utility’s ability to meet the current demand.

South Africa: A plan to establish the world’s largest green-energy financing initiative is being threshed out in South Africa, which needs to reduce its environmental footprint and find innovative ways to fund debt-stricken state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.

South Africa: Eskom recorded a net loss after tax of $1.4 B (R20.7 B) for the year and EBITDA of $2.1 B (R31.5 B).

South Africa: South Africa’s national power utility, Eskom, announced that Unit 3 at its Medupi Power Station Project has attained commercial operation status.

South Africa: Eskom’s Chief Operating Officer, Jan Oberholzer, has been appointed onto the Board of Directors of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

South Africa: The New Development Bank (NDB) has signed a series of agreements with Eskom to help promote renewable energy in South Africa.

New Development Bank (NDB) and Eskom signed a loan agreement for renewable energy integration and transmission augmentation project worth $180 M.

The Ugandan government is currently reviewing the terms of the power generation contract it signed with Eskom over 10 years ago.

Standard & Poor’s has announced its decision to revise their outlook on Eskom from negative to stable.

A Presidential Cabinet Committee on Eskom has been formed to brief President Cyril Ramaphosa on progress made to resolve the challenges at the power utility.

The proposed splitting of Eskom into generation, transmission, and distribution, has been received with mixed reactions.

Eskom recently resumed its rotational load shedding schedule, which affected the energy supply of many customers.