Eskom reportedly plans to start operating wind turbines this year to boost the supply of electricity.

The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor project that Eskom wants to build at Koeberg is likely to blow the budget.

The days of coughing up R500 at the filling station before queueing off to work in your double-cab pick-up may be numbered. Instead, you may find yourself kissing the kids good-bye, unplugging the car from the wall socket, and winding your way to the office in a nimble two-seater. Across the...

Former Eskom CEO Allen Morgan has been appointed as chairperson of renewable and clean energy generation project developer BioTherm Energy. Morgan served as Eskom CEO from 1994 until 2000 and is currently a nonexecutive director of the power utility and JSE-listed Kumba Iron Ore. He will continue to serve on the...

Eskom has reportedly decided not to proceed with building its second nuclear power station due to cost.

The South African government has established a nuclear task team to develop a framework for procuring a nuclear technology partner to support both the nuclear power station build programme, and the associated industrialisation process. “This will probably take about a year,” Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) DG Portia Molefe told journalists...

The national power utility has taken this decision based on "financial constraints".

The Innovation Fund, which falls under the aegis of the Department of Science and Technology, has supported eight climate change mitigation projects during its 2007/8 financial year, with a combined investment value of R80,8-million. Innovation Fund acting executive director McLean Sibanda said at the weekend that three of these projects would...