South Africa’s Nersa Approves 9.4 Percent Electricity Price Hike
The National Energy Regulator (Nersa) approved a 9.4% electricity hike for 2016/17 on Tuesday.Eskom submitted an application to Nersa in November last year to recover R22.8bn, which the utility said it used to avert load shedding. The decision comes after extensive consultation with government, unions, small and intensive users, who engaged in public hearings in […]
Electricity Blackouts Darken Prospects for Zimbabwe’s Students
Nearly everyone in Zimbabwe struggles with the country’s failing electricity supply, but for many rural young people it may be their future that is at risk of shutting down, experts say. Among the hardest hit by worsening electricity shortages across the country are school students, particularly in rural areas, they say. Blackouts linked to drought […]
Ease Power Cuts, Made Tells Zesa – Zimbabwe Agriculture Minister
Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made, has appealed to zesa Holdings for lenience on electricity power cuts that are affecting farmers in most parts of the country. He said his ministry was engaging the Ministry of Energy and Power Development to see how the situation could be improved to save crops under […]
lliot Abangira fom uganda invents a bicycle phone charger for the poor
They say everything happens for a reason. For 25-year-old Elliot Mwebaze Abangira, missing a mark-up test forced him to become an innovator. His product could make a huge difference for communities without electricity. It all started in 2013, when he went for his sister’s traditional marriage introduction ceremony in Kanyanga, Butinde village in Rukungiri district. […]
Zambia and Zimbabwe In Darkness as they face Electricity problems
A fault at Zambia’s Kariba North hydropower station Monday caused a blackout across most of Africa’s second largest copper producer and cut supplies to large parts of Zimbabwe. The Zambian fault knocked out Zimbabwe’s Kariba South hydro-electric plant and its Hwange thermal power plant, Fullard Gwasira, spokesman for state-owned power utility, Zesa Holdings (Pvt) Ltd., […]
Standard & Poor’s downgrades Eskom’s long-term credit rating to BB+
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded Eskom’s long-term credit rating to BB+ following the suspension of four of its senior officials, it said on Thursday. This had led the ratings agency to have less confidence in the company’s corporate governance arrangements and its stand-alone credit profile, primary credit analyst Karim Nassif said. “The negative outlook […]
