South Africa's Fuel Retailers Association has proposed scrapping the country's controversial Road Accident Fund (RAF) in favour of a mandatory insurance scheme.
The Central Energy Fund (CEF) will invest R1 billion into the country's Virginia gas project as part of a renewable energy push.
Government has limited options to cushion the blow of a record petrol price hike in April beyond taking a financial hit, says the South African Petroleum Industry Association (SAPIA).
The City of Cape Town is nearing the production of electricity from its landfill gas project.
Eskom says it will suspend load shedding at 20:00 on Sunday evening (13 March) following sufficient recovery in generation capacity.
Government is likely to intervene in the coming months to soften the blow of record oil price increases in South Africa, say economists at Bank of America Securities.
Due to some recovery in generation capacity over the past 24 hours, Eskom has announced that load shedding will be reduced to stage 3 from 21h00 tonight until 05h00 on Friday.
South African Breweries (SAB) has signed a power purchase agreement with a black-woman owned industrial-scale biogas waste-to-energy company Bio2Watt.
Eskom's increasing reliance on diesel reserves and OCGTs (Open Cycle Gas Turbines) has raised concerns that the country could move to higher stages of load shedding in the coming weeks.
Eskom has announced that it will reintroduce load shedding on Monday (7 March), due to multiple generating unit failures over the last 24 hours.
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