#South Africa

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

Enel Green Power RSA, has begun construction of its 140MW Oyster Bay wind farm, in the Kouga Local Municipality, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province.

South Africa: The Eskom Board announced on Friday evening that Eskom’s group chief executive officer, Phakamani Hadebe, will step down at the end of July 2019.

Eskom invites tenders for the supply, installation and commissioning of permanent transformer oil, online moisture removal systems at Watershed substation.

South Africa, Johannesburg: South Africa has officially launched the $13 M Heriotdale substation in Johannesburg.

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.

South Africa: Several areas are without power in Randfontein on the West Rand, where Eskom says a transformer caught fire at one of it’s substations.

On Thursday, Johannesburg’s electricity provider City Power said the Allandale substation remained under total shutdown after it ignited on Wednesday.

South Africa, Durban: An explosion at a 275 kV substation in Klaarwater led to a major power outage in several suburbs last Wednesday.

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

The newly-built Sebenza 400 kV – 275/132 kV intake substation, built by Consolidated Power Projects (Conco) is finally opened.

South Africa, Johannesburg: Allied Electronics Corporation Limited (Altron) has finalised the disposal of its 80% interest in Powertech Transformers to a consortium comprising of SGB-SMIT and local-owned Power Matla Group.

South Africa: Johannesburg-based Trafo Power Solutions will supply fit-for-purpose dry-type transformers to Alphamin Resources’ Bisie tin mine located in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a fast track project that will see the complete solution manufactured in 12 weeks.

South Africa: The Eskom Board has decided to rotate current executives in the role of Interim Group Chief Executive to ensure exposure, and announced the appointment of Sean Maritz, Eskom’s CIO and group executive for information technology, as the Interim Group Chief Executive with immediate effect.

South Africa: South African state-run power utility, Eskom and Électricité de France (EDF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend peer cooperation in the fields of transmission and distribution of electricity.

South Africa, Johannesburg: South Africa’s electricity company Eskom has announced it held a workshop to discuss the modalities of adopting natural esters as the preferred insulating fluid for transformers.

South Africa: Eskom’s coal-fired power station, Medupi, synchronised its Unit 5 to the national power grid, becoming the second of the power station’s six units to come on stream, the utility noted.

Afriguide has moved a faulty transformer from South Africa to Brazil for repair.

UK’s government funding scheme for southern Africa of $168 billion over the next five years intends to assist in the South African energy sector’s development.

South Africa: South African state-owned power utility, Eskom, has reported a drone crashed on the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant site in contravention of the nuclear safety regulations and was returned to its owner without the investigation having been completed.

South Africa, Mpumalanga: Eskom has embarked on a project to upgrade Kiepersol substation supplying Hazyview town and surrounding areas in Mpumalanga, which will increase the substation capacity from 30 MVA to 100 MVA.

South Africa: South African power utility, Eskom, has signed loan agreements with the African Development Bank (AfDB) for the sum of $1.34 billion towards the utility’s capital expenditure programme.

South Africa is considering imposing emergency tariffs on some steel imports, according a filing to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) published on Monday, reports BDlive.

South Africa, Cape Town: South Africa’s electricity provider Eskom announced it will increase its investment to $21 billion over the next five years.

South Africa, Gauteng: A fire that broke out on Friday morning at the Rynfield substation has left parts of Benoni in the Ekurhuleni municipality without electricity.

South Africa: South African supplier of electrical equipment and services Actom Power Transformers will be installing 157 custom-made transformers for three new wind farms, which is scheduled for completion in April 2016.

South Africa, Johannesburg: Eskom has installed a $10 million transformer in Arconhoek in Mpumalanga province in a bid to ensure reliable power supply to the communities in rural Bushbuckridge local municipality.