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The National Transmission Company of South Africa opened for business on 1 July, marking an important step in the wider reform programme for state utility Eskom and the unbundling electricity supply industry.

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South Africa has lost about 50% of its oil refining capacity since 2020, with three key refiners taken off line, leaving the country heavily reliant on imports for refined fuel products. Faced with a growing mismatch between local demand and supply, the authorities have been trying to encourage local and foreign investors to revive and expand the idle refineries and build new ones to ensure energy security, writes Tonderayi Mukeredzi.

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Johannesburg-based Decentral Energy has started operations at a 1MW solar PV plant to supply power to the GWK Farm Foods maize mill in Christiana, North West province.

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South Africa has pulled back from the brink with a market-friendly national coalition that seems to have outflanked ANC radicals, along with Julius Malema’s EFF and ex-President Zuma’s MKP. With President Ramaphosa back, supported by the Democratic Alliance, critical questions must now be answered about the extent to which South Africa can reverse its fortunes in key sectors.

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A big new investment in the clean cooking value chain adds to the momentum building behind efforts to tackle a major social and environmental issue across sub-Saharan Africa, while downstream giant Vivo has also completed its merger with Engen and is looking to expand its C&I power offering.

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Zurich-based commercial and industrial (C&I) developer Candi has received equity finance from new investors to bankroll solar projects in South Africa and India.

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NOA Group has inked a power purchase agreement with Tronox to supply over 200MW of wind and solar energy to the mining and chemical firm’s South African operations. The power will be facilitated through a wheeling arrangement with Eskom.

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Politics are entering uncharted waters after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in South Africa’s 29 May general election, leaving the governing party to embark on uncomfortable national coalition-building and some very spiky provincial deal-making. Many grassroots ANC members would prefer a return to more radical roots via deals with Julius Malema’s EFF or ex-president Zuma’s MK Party, but others are hoping President Ramaphosa can secure a stable alliance that promotes economic stability with the Democratic Alliance. Failed coalition-building would lead to another election, in which the ANC might not do better a second time around.

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Eco has bought a 75% stake in the offshore Block 1 acreage, which it says is on trend with other major finds including Shell's Graff discovery, but the London AIM-listed explorer has also relinquished its interest in Block 2B, where it failed to find commercial resources.

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Petra Diamonds has signed power purchase agreements with electricity trader Etana Energy to supply its Cullinan and Finsch mines in South Africa.

South Africa
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The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) registered a further 105 power generation projects with a combined capacity of 788MW between January and March this year, lifting the overall number of projects to 1,415 since the registration process began in 2018, with total capacity reaching 7.2GW.

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Cape Town-based NOA Group has concluded the purchase of the 350MW Khauta solar PV cluster in Free State province from Germany’s Pure New Energy. Chief executive Karel Cornelissen provided African Energy with details of NOA’s plans for the Khauta projects and beyond.

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Ener-G-Africa has officially launched a biomass stove and cookware factory in Paarl, near Cape Town, giving impetus to efforts to promote green cooking in Africa.

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A major source of natural gas for South Africa could be constrained as soon as 2025, with declining reserves at Mozambique’s Pande and Temane fields potentially leading to supply shortages. South Africa will need to secure new sources of feedstock if it is to develop the gas-to-power projects that many see as essential to provide baseload for the renewable energy sector that African Energy Live Data shows is gaining momentum.

Mozambique | Nigeria | Morocco | South Africa
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Doornhoek and Ursa Energy Virginia solar PV plants have become the first two projects under the sixth bid window of the renewable energy IPP procurement (REIPPP6) programme to reach commercial close and sign project implementation agreements.

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