City of Cape Town
Smart Technologies
Cape Town’s digital tools to curb illegal power connections
Spying on illegal connection thieves via drones, geo-location apps to call out meter-tampering, and viable EVs are in Cape Town's digital toolbox.
Transmission and Distribution
Tender notice: Municipal energy resilience project
The Western Cape Provincial government is looking for expertise for the implementation of the Municipal Energy Resilience Project.
Renewable energy
Upcycling invasive wood to address climate change
The largest charcoal production facility in the southern hemisphere has been launched near Wellington in the Western Cape to address climate change.
Generation
Cape Town makes a case before High Court for electricity generation
The City of Cape Town seeks to develop its own clean electricity capacity without requiring the national energy minister’s permission.
Transmission and Distribution
Together we can keep the lights on during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Africa-focused COVID-19: Utility Crisis Management webinar showed how utilities were coping under lockdown conditions.
Finance and Policy
Western Cape supports municipalities in procuring energy independently
Over 20 municipalities in the Western Cape Province are ready to go ahead with the procurement of energy directly from Independent Power Producers.
Top Stories
The value of an open market pushes regulatory boundaries
An open market in South Africa will enhance electricity consumers' ability to generate power for own, which is currently reined in by outdated regulation.
Features/Analysis
Op-Ed: Is SA’s energy dark ages set to end after SONA...
Dr Sam Duby, TFE Energy's Africa Director, asks whether the 2020 SONA is the first shaft of light heralding the end of South Africa’s energy dark ages.
Future Energy
Students tell all about Open Africa Power 2020 experience
Three students that participated in Enel Foundation's Open Africa Power 2020 programme, give their impression of the programme.
Generation
Lessons from mining: A focus on large power users at AUW...
Electricity supply within the large power users market will be addressed at the African Utility Week and POWERGEN Africa in Cape Town from 12-14 May.
