South Africa's plan to expand its power grid, now the biggest bottleneck to replacing coal with renewables, has hit a snag: finding investors to lend the necessary $21 billion to a near-bankrupt ...

South Africa's donor-funded climate programme has spent just over a sixth of its allotted $11.6 billion, with a focus on expanding the power grid and preventing its coal-mining region slipping ...

South Africa does not have an energy supply problem — it has a grid problem. The private sector is ready to invest, but without a functioning and independent transmission system, we will not ...

Eskom has connected the Koeberg nuclear power station’s Unit 2 to South Africa's national grid, progressing the country's Generation Operational Recovery Plan. Unit 2's 930MW capacity is ...

South Africa’s presidency said it plans to set up a body to oversee raising 319 billion rand ($18 billion) that it estimates it needs to repair and upgrade the country’s municipal power grids.

South Africa’s big companies, hospitals and universities have millions of square metres of rooftop space that is suitable for generating solar power.

South Africa’s energy crisis began in around 2007, when Eskom became unable to meet the country’s energy needs and had to implement power cuts to decrease demand on the energy system.