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The World Bank board has approved $250m in funding for the Eskom Renewables Energy Support Project, to help implement the Upington concentrating solar power and Sere wind power plants.

Doubts remain over the substance and implementation of key elements of government policy towards the electricity supply industry and major projects intended to overcome shortfalls in generation capacity, according to a range of government and Eskom statements in recent weeks.

KENYA: Fuel pipeline tender; SOUTH AFRICA: Unipec tie-up for PetroSA

Eskom and the African Development Bank (AfDB) signed two loan agreements totalling $365m in Washington on 25 September for the first large-scale implementation of renewable wind and solar generation in Eskom’s history.

Eskom has given ABB a contract to construct two solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants. The pilot plants, each of one hectare, will be located on greenfield sites adjacent to the coal-fired power stations at

Peter Earl has quit as chief executive of private power developer IPSA Group, and will be

There are signs of movement, at last, on bidding for flagship solar and other renewables projects, to be installed at either end of the continent. 

Engen Petroleum has given a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction a contract for engineering, procurement and construction management services for new multi-products pipeline feeder lines and infrastructure at its Enref refinery in Durban.

The Department of Energy (DoE) has reported heavy demand for tender documents, finally released in early August, for its renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) programme. 

Lower-than-expected demand, thanks to relatively mild weather and a wave of strike action, helped Eskom keep the lights on during the peak winter demand period.  Delivering a Q3 ‘state of the system’ update on 25 August, chief executive Brian Dames said electricity demand growth over the period was about 1.4% year on year, below Eskom’s 2% growth forecast for the full year.

Eskom has received a E100m ($141m) loan from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to fund a 100MW wind project in the Western Cape.  The 20-year credit facility will contribute to financing the Sere wind project, to be built at a site north-west of Vredendal, about 300km north of Cape Town.

Licence holders and developers are still awaiting clarification on how bidding for the first round of tendering under the Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff (Refit) mechanism for renewables projects will work, weeks after officials suggested that competitive bidding based on price, rather than the expected fixed tariff formula, might now apply

IPSA Group, which is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, has finally announced the sale of its four Siemens Westinghouse 701 DU gas turbines, in deals worth $66m. The deals will help IPSA to overcome its debt problems, escaping a difficult situation by exploiting the global increase in turbine prices

Representatives of striking fuel workers were meeting management as African Energy went to press to discuss a new pay offer in a bid to end a stoppage lasting more than two weeks