#South Africa

South Africa, Johannesburg: Eskom announced reduction of load shedding on Sunday, 17 January 2021.

The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation confirms that Cabinet has ratified the appointment of Loyiso Tyabashe as its new Group Chief Executive Officer.

Eskom met with various districts and local municipalities to introduce the construction of the 282 km 400 kV transmission line project.

AUDA-NEPAD and the ADB have released recommendations of a baseline study that looked into the development of a continental transmission network.

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.

Vexila has confirmed successful development of its very own 765 kV composite long rod insulator of African origin.

The 110 MW Perdekraal East Wind Farm, outside of the Western Cape province in South Africa, commenced commercial operations on 8 October 2020.

South Africa, North Cape: Easy Solar has closed $5 M to scale-up energy access in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

South Africa: The 140 MW Kangnas Wind Farm, on the outskirts of Springbok, successfully energised its main transformer this week.

The 33 MW Excelsior wind farm is connected to the country’s national power grid, having completed the commissioning of its 13 wind turbine generators.

The City of Ekurhuleni’s executive mayor, Mzwandile Masina, commended the team that worked on the upgrades and maintenance of the Glen Marais substation.

SGB-SMIT POWER MATLA added to its track record of manufacturing and testing high voltage transformers with the most recent factory acceptance tests.

South Africa, Johannesburg: City Power said power at the Vasco da Gama substation is expected to be fully restored by 19 August if all goes according to plan.

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.

The power supply at Botha substation was isolated on 14 July as it was temporarily unable to accommodate the load of consumers in Lynnville and Ackerville.

The mega transformer for the 110 MW Perdekraal Wind Farm in South Africa has arrived at the project site in Western Cape.

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

A transformer fault at Parys rural substation resulted in a fire that caused substantial damage to the control room.

South Africa, Springs: Several areas in Springs will be without power on 9 April, according to a statement released by the metro’s energy department.

South Africa, Port Elizabeth: A fire at a substation in North End is distinguished on 4 April as electricity disruptions continue in the area.