After months of stalled negotiations with Johannesburg and a delayed independent report intended to resolve metering and billing disagreements, Chris Yelland reports that Eskom may be on the warpath ...

In a significant breakthrough against utility theft, police officers from the elite Operation Vala Umgodi arrested six suspects found in possession of stolen Eskom property worth an astonishing R1 ...

Eskom has gone silent on its once-ambitious microgrid rollout, which has already been scaled down significantly from its original targets in the past year. Microgrids are small-scale containerised ...

Eskom says the national grid is strained by high demand and inclement weather set to continue until Wednesday. The latest data from Eskom shows the power utility ramped up its use of open cycle gas ...

Eskom has failed to meet its own energy availability factor (EAF) targets, which shows that things are not well at the power utility. The energy availability factor shows the percentage of time the ...

South Africans are increasingly turning to solar energy, and sectional title property owners are not excluded from the ...

"If you have an alternative energy source, you will be able to reduce how much you spend on electricity with Eskom a bit. But this will rely on new managing of the system," he said.

Eskom has waived registration fees and will provide free smart meters for residential small-scale embedded generation systems up to 50kVA until March 2026, but an accredited engineer still has to ...

Power utility Eskom has warned solar users in South Africa that they have only until March 2026 to avoid hefty registration fees for their systems. Failing to do so could see costs shoot up to ...

There’s not much to laugh about now. Carel de Jager, CEO of Silver Sixpence and a former Eskom engineer, ran some simulations to quantify what impact bitcoin mining would’ve had on Eskom’s ...

Eskom has been granted limited air quality exemptions for eight of its coal-fired power stations. Critics warn this move delays much-needed compliance as affected communities continue to suffer ...