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Cape Town South Africa is falling apart. Blackouts of up to ten hours a day are bringing businesses to a halt, making teaching harder and turning traffic lights dark. Food [...]

Though necessitated by rolling blackouts, there has been decisive, progressive action from South Africa's policymakers on increased independent power production. Most recently, this has resulted in the announcement of looser [...]

At a vast coal-fired power station under construction in South Africa's northeast Limpopo province, workers go about their business in a cavernous engine room, inspecting the generators that will power [...]

Coal is still used to generate 77% of South Africa's electricity, but as the country seeks to ensure a more cost-effective and reliable energy supply, the transition to renewable energy [...]

South Africa intends to start developing a plan for a new 2500MWe nuclear power plant, Minerals Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe told parliament in May. Officials had indicated in [...]

At first glance, passengers flying into George, a regional airport in South Africa, might not notice anything unusual about the service. Baggage carousels spit out luggage, checkin proceeds at the [...]

Historically ahead of its neighbours in energy generation, South Africa is now suffering frequent power cuts. Dianna Games analyses the origins of the problem and the electoral repurcussions it could [...]

South Africa, Africa's most industrialised country, is grappling with a serious energy shortfall. Complicating the energy issue further are political and environmental concerns about possible solutions--coal and nuclear--against the backdrop [...]

As the commodities slump continues to bite, Africa's hydrocarbon producers are struggling to come to terms with the reality that oil prices are unlikely to return to the highs seen [...]

Africa's ability to provide electricity to its population has traditionally been judged on the ability of its governments to finance or attract private sector investment into new power plants. Such [...]

Rosatom has signed two memoranda with Sudan's Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation and Electric Power, one on nuclear cooperation in training and one on encouraging positive public attitudes towards nuclear [...]

According to the 2016 Global Trends in Renewables Global Status Report, more than twice as much was invested worldwide on renewable energy generating capacity as fossil capacity in 20x5, despite [...]

In Africa, technical capacity and finance have long been identified as the major barriers to developing renewable energy, but lack of reliable data is also a big limitation. Off-grid and [...]

It was coal that underpinned the industrial revolution, now some think it's Africa's turn. The fossil fuel may be on the retreat in the West, but for some African countries, [...]

Canada, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US, Sweden, Netherlands and the European Union (EU) will jointly provide $10bn between 2015 and 2020 to boost access to energy in Africa, [...]

Business leaders surveyed last year by management consultants AT Kearney said they had more confidence in South Africa as an investment destination than they did in many western European countries [...]