by Manie de Waal | Dec 12, 2019 | All News, Power
With commercial solar energy becoming increasingly affordable as the cost of photovoltaic (PV) systems continues to decline, agricultural operations in South Africa may have a lot to offer the national grid in the future. This, however, is dependent on government...
by Manie de Waal | Nov 22, 2019 | All News, Power
While the current regulations on private power generation (embedded energy generation) have aided many agriculture operations to cut their energy costs significantly, the imposed threshold on small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) is excluding many larger agri...
by Energy Partners | Nov 13, 2019 | All News, Power
Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement commentary: In the 2019 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement delivered this afternoon, Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni made it very clear that new cash flow support for the state owned entity (SOE) will no longer be equity, but in...
by Manie de Waal | Nov 12, 2019 | All News, Power
Two years ago, the first power was generated under the largest single roof solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Africa at Pick n Pay’s Longmeadow Distribution Centre. Energy Partners Solar – a division of Energy Partners and part of the PSG group of companies –...
by Manie de Waal | Nov 12, 2019 | All News, Power
Electricity tariffs for municipalities in South Africa increased by an average of 13.07% on the 1st of July, continuing the trend of above-inflation annual price increases of grid-based power. Considering this, as well as the future increases that the National Energy...