#South Africa

South Africa, Western Cape: Zest WEG has delivered a locally manufactured main power transformer to a wind farm project near Swellendam in the Western Cape.

Zest WEG’s local transformer manufacturing facility has supplied specialised photovoltaic transformers to a solar energy generation plant in the Northern Cape.

South Africa: The affected areas included Comet, part of Boksburg North, Ravenswood, Jansen Park, Witfield, Dayanglen and many areas around the East Rand Mall.

Solar power producer Scatec Solar and partners have grid-connected and reached commercial operation for 86MW of the 258MW solar power complex in Upington.

Condition monitoring specialists upgraded laboratory into a centre which can conduct oil, coolant and fuel analysis, as well as traditional used oil analysis.

Zest WEG’s transformer manufacturing facility has supplied 36 specialised photovoltaic transformers to a solar energy generation plant in the Northern Cape.

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.

Secunda in Mpumalanga was plunged into powerlessness on Tuesday evening when a primary substation burst into flames. Electrical teams couldn’t enter the precinct

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: OR Tambo International Airport was plunged into darkness after a transformer at a Kempton Park substation caught fire on Sunday morning. The Ekurhuleni…

South Africa is launching Risk Mitigation Programme in order to ease supply constraints and analyse options of grid connectivity in a fast and afordable manner.

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.

Trafo Power Solutions recently supplied two 2000 kVA 11,6kV/415V dry-type transformers to a large data centre in the Cape Town ensuring reliable supply.

Cargill, announced its continued investment in supply of FR3 natural ester fluids for electricity transformer applications in the power, utilities and other industries for the South African and sub-Saharan markets through the appointment of a new country manager.

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.

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.