Where to next for South Africa’s new power market?

Drastic regulatory reforms are reshaping South Africa’s electricity supply industry (ESI) into a diversified and competitive market. With the unbundling of the state power utility Eskom into separate units for generation, transmission and distribution, already underway, a deregulated energy market dominated by private players and electricity traders, is emerging.

Through reporting and the latest data, African Energy has been closely monitoring and covering the transition and the trends towards a liberalised ESI.

Banks start to bridge South Africa’s renewable energy finance gap, but large void remains

Issue 513 - 26 September 2024

Pretoria faces an arduous job in financing its energy transition, which could cost as much as $500bn over the next three decades. The number and size of investments have been limited to date and the scarcity of funding threatens to stymie the government’s climate change targets, but local lenders are...

Where to next for South Africa’s new power market?

Banks start to bridge South Africa’s renewable energy finance gap, but large void remains

Eskom promises a summer without blackouts in South Africa

South African ESI hails more focused electricity portfolio

National Transmission Company of South Africa starts trading

South Africa’s Kusile Unit V starts up, boosting power availability

Petra Diamonds signs PPA with Etana Energy for South African mines’ supply

South Africa’s Nersa registers 105 projects with 788MW capacity at start of 2024

South African gas supply risks highlight transition’s baseload challenge

Eskom frees up 3.5GW of grid capacity for South African wind projects

South Africa scales back renewable ambitions in revised electricity blueprint

South African regulator grants electricity trading licence to Envusa Energy

South Africa: Nersa registers 908MW of power generation projects in Q3 23, but few have storage

Eskom names Makorane as chief executive, ending year-long search

South Africa: Eskom using debt and equity to finance transmission projects

Construction start for SolarAfrica’s 1GW South African wheeling project

South Africa faces grid crunch, as private sector ramps up capacity

South Africa: Private sector boom turns power system inside out

South Africa – main areas of renewable power generation and energy intensive users group

South Africa’s power generation pipeline and grid connections

Power infrastructure in South Africa, eSwatini and Lesotho

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