Kusile Power Station
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Electricity Minister Ramokgopa plays open cards on winter’s Stage 8
The Electricity Minister in the Presidency Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has conceded that Eskom does not have the necessary generation capacity…
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Race to get three Kusile units up
There is no end in sight for rolling blackouts at this stage. Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa visited the troubled…
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Work on Kusile units remains on track, says Ramokgopa
After those well-publicized visits to all Eskom power stations, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has returned to Kusile Power Station. Three…
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Electricity Minister visits Kusile Power Station again
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is visiting the Kusile Power Station in Delmas. He will receive a status report on measures…
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NPA granted provisional restraint order valued at R583 million in assets belonging to ex-ABB employees & 6 others
The National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit has been awarded a provisional restraint order valued at R583.8m against former employees…
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Electricity Minister: Consistent energy availability will end load shedding
The Minister of Electricity, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, said that consistent progress in improving Eskom’s energy availability factor would eventually lead to…
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Ramokgopa: 4 units at Kusile will come online by end of the year
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says problems at Kusile power station will be fixed. He expects four units to go online…
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Environmentalists say Kusile gas emission exemption poses threat to human life
Some environmentalists said that the grant that Eskom had received for relief from some gas emission regulations would have fatal…
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Eskom given permission to skirt pollution regulations
Exempting the Kusile power station from sulphur dioxide emission limits might add power to the grid in the short term…
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Nightly load shedding reduced to stage 3
Power cuts will be reduced from Stage 4 to Stage 3 during the nights of the weekend. This is thanks…
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Matshela Koko granted R300 000 bail
Bail for former Eskom Acting CEO Matshela Koko has been set at R300,000. He appeared before the Middelburg Magistrates’ Court…
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8 people to appear in court for crimes at Eskom
Eight people are expected to make their first appearance in the Middelburg Magistrates’ Court on Thursday in connection with dodgy…
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Eskom fraud suspects to appear in court
Eight people are expected to appear at the Mpumalanga Middleburg Magistrates’ Court on Thursday on charges of fraud, corruption, and…
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Eskom implements Stage 4 blackouts
Eskom has announced that it will be implementing Stage 4 power cuts from 5 pm to 10 pm. The utility…
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Court issues arrest warrant for former Eskom exec France Hlakudi
The Palm Ridge Specialised Crimes Court on Wednesday issued a warrant of arrest for former senior Eskom manager France Hlakudi…
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Eskom urges SA to use electricity sparingly to avoid further outages
Eskom has encouraged South Africans to use electricity sparingly, saying the improvement in generation capacity was not enough to suspend…
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Eskom warns of 4 000MW shortfall and increased risk of power cuts
Eskom said that it would continue to have a shortfall of more than 4,000 megawatts of generation capacity this year,…
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Limpopo businessman’s R5 million tax fraud case on hold till September
The Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday postponed the tax fraud case against Limpopo businessman Maphoko Hudson Kgomoeswana to 8 September…
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Eskom’s R745 million Kusile corruption case postponed to August
The Palm Ridge Magistrates Court on Tuesday postponed the Eskom’s R745 million Kusile power station corruption case to a later…
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The real cause of load-shedding in South Africa
South Africa has experienced load-shedding since 2007 because the country failed to build new power stations to keep up with…
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