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Immediate introduction of new tariff methodology ‘not feasible’

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September 28, 2021

Actors

Eskom

Will Gwede Mantashe doom Eskom’s future?

September 27, 2021
DMRE

Mantashe must abandon plans to develop 1,500MW of coal-powered electricity, or face court case, say activists

September 23, 2021
Sasol

Sasol charts green transition with no investment in new coal reserves

Air pollution

Air pollution

Eskom mulls alternatives to R300bn emissions-compliance spend

March 17, 2021
Air pollution

Eskom, Sasol face government ultimatum to meet emission limits

March 11, 2021
Air pollution

Wood burning at home now biggest cause of UK particle pollution | Air pollution | The Guardian

February 17, 2021

Aviation

Aviation

EasyJet to offset carbon emissions from all its flights | Business | The Guardian

November 20, 2019

Biofuels

Cabinet

Cabinet

MboMboweni says nuclear power will be added to the grid if Eskom woes continue

January 28, 2020
Cabinet

South Africa aims to finalise its long-term energy plan next month (February, 2019)

January 17, 2019
Cabinet

Renewable energy to form a vital part of SA’s energy mix – David Mahlobo

February 22, 2018

call for proposals

Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon neutrality

Carbon Offsetting

Aviation

EasyJet to offset carbon emissions from all its flights | Business | The Guardian

November 20, 2019
Carbon Offsetting

South Africa: Revenue use planning for South Africa’s carbon tax

September 11, 2019
Carbon Offsetting

Greta Thunberg and ‘flight shame’ fuel a carbon offset boom

August 14, 2019

Carbon pricing

Carbon pricing

Social Zero – an alternative to the Social Cost of Carbon

August 19, 2020
Carbon pricing

World Bank Technical Paper Details Options for Carbon Revenue Use

September 11, 2019
Carbon pricing

Using Carbon Revenues – World Bank Report August 2019

Carbon tax

Carbon tax

Some Q & A from a recent seminar on the SA Carbon market

March 29, 2021
Carbon tax

Carbon tax would be popular with UK voters, poll suggests | Greenhouse gas emissions

February 25, 2021
Carbon tax

NEWSFLASH: Carbon Tax Deadlines and Carbon Tax Policy

September 29, 2020

CCS

CCS

Carbon capture and utilisation workshop 2020

April 24, 2020

Climate Breakdown

Climate Breakdown

The carbon bucket is about to overflow in a few years – what must we do?

December 27, 2019
Climate Breakdown

Challenge our elected officials on their climate change plan – Greta

Civil Society

Bombs Away – Greta

October 7, 2019

Climate Change

Climate Change

Cabinet endorses more ambitious carbon pledge ahead of Glasgow summit

September 21, 2021
Climate Change

Africa set to become global climate migration ‘hotspot’

September 14, 2021
Climate Change

Environmentalists opposed Medupi from beginning to end

August 31, 2021

Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis

The climate crisis calls for an immediate capping – not decapitating – of capitalism

May 5, 2021
Climate Crisis

Relentless’ climate crisis intensified in 2020, says UN report

April 20, 2021
Civil Society

THE ROLE OF TRANSITION FINANCE FOR CLIMATE MITIGATION – A JUST CLIMATE TRANSACTION FOR SOUTH AFRICA

April 29, 2020

COP 26

COP 26

Join REEEP at the Future of Renewables Virtual Conference

December 4, 2020

COP24

Civil Society

Project 90 and the Just Energy Transition

October 23, 2018

COP26

COP26

UK’s Cop26 president calls for world to get on track to hit net zero by 2050 | Cop26: Glasgow climate change conference 2021 | The Guardian

March 19, 2021

CSP

DEFF

DFFE

Disinvestment

Climate Change

Banks must put their money where their mouth is – NOT into fossil fuels – 2020 Report – Production Gap

December 14, 2020
Climate Change

Standard Bank publishes climate-change-mitigating fossil fuels financing policy

December 11, 2020
Disinvestment

G20 Backtracks on Fossil Fuel Funding Phase-Out in COVID-19 Recovery

November 10, 2020

Distributed Energy Resources DER

Distributed Energy Resources DER

Operation Vulindlela ‘close to resolving’ debate on easing path for distributed power projects

May 21, 2021
Distributed Energy Resources DER

Adoption rationales and effects of off-grid renewable energy access for African youth: A case study from Tanzania

February 19, 2021
Distributed Energy Resources DER

New Eskom pricing can crush solar in South Africa

October 7, 2019

Divestment

Divestment

"Clean creatives" campaign asks PR firms to fire fossil fuel clients

January 12, 2021
Disinvestment

Fossil Fuel Investments Persist

December 17, 2020
Divestment

Lloyd’s market to quit fossil fuel insurance by 2030 | Lloyd’s | The Guardian

EE

EE

Guest post: Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half | Carbon Brief

March 15, 2021
EE

Stellenbosch University building achievest A-rating energy efficiency certificate

March 2, 2021
EE

“#EnergyEfficiency” will be the hashtag buzzword for 2021 – Energize

January 5, 2021

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

April 28, 2021
Electric Vehicles

New Zealand Government to stop buying gas/petrol/diesel cars for their use

December 4, 2020
Electric Vehicles

Jaguar launches R30m EV charging network in SA

September 14, 2018

Electricity

Electricity

Cape Town electricity outages the work of syndicates, Eskom says

July 19, 2021

Electricity tariffs

Electricity tariffs

RCA hearing NERSA consultations – OUTA submission 16th Nov 2020

November 17, 2020
Electricity tariffs

Joburg electricity costs spiral as city suffers Covid related revenue loss

October 21, 2020
Civil Society

OUTA comprehensive Submission to Parliament – Electricity chapter

June 18, 2020

embedded generation

embedded generation

It’s 100MW or bust: Power to the people after embedded generation threshold set in stone

August 13, 2021
embedded generation

Power struggle: The 100MW exemption is likely to be a monumental step towards privatisation — not necessarily for the good

July 6, 2021
embedded generation

50 MW reform won’t hurt Eskom and would stimulate recovery, leading proponent outlines in submission

May 26, 2021

energy and society

Energy related studies

Energy related studies

The five steps Meridian says South Africa should take in the next 500 days to future-proof energy sector

June 4, 2021
Energy related studies

‘New normal’ of elevated renewables deployments outlined in new market update

May 12, 2021
Energy related studies

Right policy changes’ could ignite R150bn in electricity investment by private firms

May 11, 2021

Energy storage

Energy storage

Against the odds, solar-plus-storage project emerges with lowest RMIPPPP bid

March 24, 2021
Energy storage

Local lithium-ion plant would require offtake agreement first, says Metair

March 19, 2021
Energy storage

Tesla inspires another new industry – and it’s one South Africa could benefit from

December 8, 2020

EV

EV

Volvo Car SA to bring host of EVs to South Africa, says MD

March 22, 2021
EV

Electric cars split the road for emerging and developing markets

February 24, 2021
EV

Local advancement of electric vehicles must be accelerated, says Naamsa

February 23, 2021

Events

Events

Webinar invitation 🌍 Ecosystems and Society: a Complex Systems Perspective on their intertwined futures

April 13, 2021
Events

Massive SA business opportunities in Green Hydrogen: Join DTIC Minister, Sasol CEO, Toyota CEO, World Bank and other presenters

April 6, 2021
Events

[ INVITATION: Municipal Governance and Citizen Engagement: Challenges and Strategies

March 19, 2021

FBE

FBE

Municipalities steal billions meant for free electricity

May 10, 2021
FBE

New research shows how municipalities divert funding intended for free basic electricity

April 19, 2021
FBE

Invitation from NERSA to comment on the Free Basic Electricity Rate Methodolgy – deadline 7 December 2020

November 23, 2020

Finance

Finance

Big banks’ trillion-dollar finance for fossil fuels ‘shocking’, says report | Fossil fuels | The Guardian

March 25, 2021
Climate Change

Understanding TCFDs – Carbon Calculated

March 24, 2021
Climate Change

Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: Fossil Fuel Finance Report

Fossil Fuels

Nuclear

Going nuclear: Mantashe’s big push to build South Africa’s second nuke power station under fire

September 2, 2021
Nuclear

Oh no: NERSA takes SA another step towards new nuclear

August 20, 2021
Coal

The (empty) promises of ‘clean coal’ power generation technologies for South Africa

August 18, 2021

Fracking

Fuel cells

Fuel cells

Fuel cell technology now powering military field hospital in Pretoria

August 20, 2020
Fuel cells

[H2]Exciting new stimulus for hydrogen power, fuel cells, platinum economy

July 10, 2019

General News

General News

UCT-GSB Power Futures Lab webinar on generation licence threshold limits

August 12, 2021
General News

Tipping point: How many climate code reds does humanity need?

August 11, 2021
General News

Public entities can’t withhold financial documents from Parliament, committee hears

August 6, 2021

Geothermal

Green Economy

Hydrogen

Hydrogen

Southern Africa part of Germany’s platinum-boosting green hydrogen strategy

August 3, 2021
Hydrogen

KfW issues RFI for €200m South African green-hydrogen programme

July 6, 2021
Hydrogen

Sasol, IDC team up to stimulate South Africa’s green-hydrogen industry

IRP 2018

IPP

Cabinet last week, said it remained committed to expanding the availability of renewable power to enhance the country’s energy mix

March 5, 2019
Eskom

Eskom, tariffs, bailouts and IPPs – let’s cut throu…

February 20, 2019
IRP 2018

Analysis paralysis over South Africa’s IRP for electricity presents massive economic risk – EE Publishers

February 6, 2019

IRP 2019

CSIR

Setting up for the 2020s Addressing South Africa’s electricity crisis and getting ready for the next decade CSIR Energy Centre Pretoria. January 2020

January 22, 2020
CSIR

Integrated Resource Plan: 2019 Initial CSIR insights and risks/opportunities for South Africa

November 11, 2019
DoE

The Integrated Resource Plan 2019 (corrected and Gazetted)

October 19, 2019

JET

JET

Mantashe to co-chair global panel this week on people-centred energy transitions

March 30, 2021
Climate Change

How do you measure the future?

March 26, 2021
Gas

[|JET]U.K. Agrees to Help North Sea Oil Industry With Low-Carbon shift

March 24, 2021

Just Transition

Just Transition

To abandon coal, first understand how it is governed

August 31, 2021
JET

Just Transition in India

December 8, 2020
JET

Building back better – Webinar 25 November 2020

November 19, 2020

LED

Legal

Climate Change

4-part webinar series on suing fossil fuel companies for climate costs

October 29, 2020
Fossil Fuels

Proposal for Turkish company to anchor ‘floating power stations rings alarm bells

August 13, 2020
IPP

Cape Town ordered to settle IPP dispute with Minister, but case can be re-enrolled if talks fail

August 12, 2020

load shedding

Eskom

Prepare for even worse load shedding from August. This graph shows why.

March 17, 2021
Eskom

Opinion: Is load-shedding here to stay?

March 16, 2021
Eskom

Maintenance progress alone insufficient to eliminate load-shedding risk amid 4 GW deficit

Microgrids

Microgrids

Using Games to Engage Communities in Microgrid Development : HOMER Microgrid News and Insight

December 12, 2018

Nationally Determined Contributions

COP 26

ANALYSIS | Lacklustre climate targets are a risky proposition for South Africa

June 22, 2021

Net Zero

Net Zero

Global wind installation step change required to meet net-zero goal

March 26, 2021
Climate Change

Don’t believe hydrogen and nuclear hype – they can’t get us to net zero carbon by 2050 | Energy | The Guardian

March 17, 2021
Climate Change

Project Drawdown: The World’s Leading Resource for Climate Solutions

March 15, 2021

News

News

Nuke Developer Gets $280 Million to Make Plasma Hotter than the sun

April 9, 2021
News

A major cabinet reshuffle is on the cards – The Mail & Guardian

March 25, 2021
News

Some news from 350Africa’s public finance campaign.

Policy & Planning

IPP

Sasol and Air Liquide initiate first phase of 900 MW renewables procurement process

April 14, 2021
Energy Efficiency & Demand Side Management

On the selection of powerships over renewables and battery storage for two thirds of the RMIPPPP

April 7, 2021
IRP

DMRE delays release of renewables bid documentation

April 1, 2021

Pollution

Pollution

[Plastic]The Age of Plastemic: Tiny plastic particles are invading the remotest oceans and mountains via aerial transmission

July 15, 2020
Legal

Fwd:Outrage after “Cancer Alley” activists face terrorism charges for anti-plastics stunt

June 29, 2020
Air pollution

Corpses block main gate to Eskom’s HQ

August 21, 2019

RE

RE

SOUTH AFRICA: Absa and Arep join forces for renewable energy financing

August 18, 2021
load shedding

Imagine no load shedding, it’s easy if you try — no hell below us, above us only sky

June 22, 2021
RE

Masterplan to position South Africa as ‘globally significant’ renewables manufacturer

June 9, 2021

Renewables

Distributed Energy Resources DER

Renewable energy: Mining industry likely to snap up Ramaphosa’s power offer

June 23, 2021
Wind

New global report highlights growing demand for wind workforce training in South Africa

June 2, 2021
Gas

It’s the green train now — and you’re on the wrong platform, Gwede Mantashe

May 24, 2021

Reports

RESEF

RMIPPPP

RMIPPPP

Local content rules for PV modules posing a challenge for ‘emergency’ solar projects

April 12, 2021
Gas

Despite Eskom approvals, Turkish power ships still need Transnet buy-in for 20 year harbour moorings

April 1, 2021
Fossil Fuels

Gwede Mantashe condemns us to deepening load shedding

March 24, 2021

SDGs

General News

SA’s first SDG report card – how to move beyond box-ticking

July 3, 2019
General News

NBI News Update: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2019

January 31, 2019

Self-gen

SMART News

Civil Society

‘Green power is key’

August 5, 2013
Civil Society

Put our resources together and solve the electricity crisis

July 10, 2013
SMART News

Archbishop Emiritus Desmond Tutu supports EGI’s Smart Energy Plan

December 12, 2012

SSEG

IRP

South Africa’s energy policies: Are changes finally coming?

December 21, 2020
SSEG

Solar power plant benefits local community health – Energize

December 8, 2020
SSEG

Of raindrops and rooftops – Energize

Tariffs

Eskom

EIUG says tariff hike will curtail economic recovery efforts

February 18, 2021
Eskom

Domino effect: SA economy takes another hit on news that Eskom can hike tariffs 15%

February 17, 2021
Eskom

Lifting distributed-generation cap ‘one of the easier decisions’ facing government – De Ruyter

February 16, 2021

Trending Eskom

Trending SSEG

NERSA

17 SSEG applications of less than 1 MW have now been approved by NERSA!

May 30, 2019

Uncategorised

Air pollution

Teach children not to breathe

January 13, 2019
Uncategorised

Out of office

December 20, 2018
Uncategorised

Out of office

December 6, 2018

Waste

Waste

GCX NOW Newsletter | March 2021

March 26, 2021
Waste

Plenary Invitation: Key Drivers of Organic Waste Diversion from Cape Town’s Landfills

March 18, 2021
Events

Webinar Invitation: PV Recycling and Endlife Processing

October 28, 2020
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