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The World Bank’s Mission 300 should focus on renewables as the extraction and burning of gas is expensive would damage the environment and people’s health. Photo: IGUA-SA

Unlocking regional potential: South Africa’s gas master plan and energy transition

The plan provides a chance to strengthen cooperation and competition in the Southern African Development Community

Eskom told the Mail & Guardian it had only received a R9 billion World Bank loan to decommission its coal-fired Komati power station. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Energy development institute raises questions about transmission in South Africa’s energy blueprint

Sanedi chief executive Titus Mathe says the draft Integrated Resources Plan does not explain how Eskom will extend its transmission lines

Power on: Koeberg nuclear station. The ANC Youth League has supported the development of nuclear energy, identifying it as “critical to advance massive industrial development”. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg/Getty Images

ANC Youth League deems nuclear critical to industrialisation

A discussion document prepared for the youth league’s national congress weighs in on the ‘baseload’ debate

Aerial view taken on December 16, 2013 in Inga shows the Inga 1 dam and Inga Falls on the Congo river. The Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa vowed on October 16, 2015 to step up work on a massive new hydroelectric dam on the Congo River that could provide power to the entire continent. The Inga 3 Basse Chute project near Matadi would divert Congo River waters into a 12-kilometre (7.5-mile) channel and then pass them through a 100-metre-high (330-foot) hydropower dam in the Bundi Valley before releasing the water back into the river. The intake would be above the existing Inga 1 and Inga 2 dams, and the outflow downstream from both. (AFP PHOTO/MARC JOURDIER)

South Africans will pay for the costly electricity from DRC’s Inga 3 dam

A new report says power from the hydroelectric scheme is more expensive than energy from solar and wind

Lobbing questions: Gwede Mantashe just won’t sign on the IRP line (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

King Coal defies his energy plan

Gwede Mantashe needs to shift from costly, climate crisis-inducing fossil fuels to renewables

Rhino Oil & Gas Exploration South Africa, a subsidiary of
Rhino Resources, which operates out of the British Virgin Islands and has a head office in Texas, is looking to explore 6?060 farms in three provinces for gas. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)

Gas prospectors to explore three provinces

In the new Integrated Resource Plan, wind and solar will provide 25 000MW of capacity by 2030

Energy Minister Jeff Radebe. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

SA energy will still be two-thirds coal in 2030 – Radebe

Radebe and his department were briefing the portfolio committee on energy on the latest IRP, released at the end of August

“If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” US President Donald Trump wrote. (Reuters)

Gordhan: Eskom should be allowed to compete in the renewable space

‘There’s no reason, if the coal side of the business begins to decline slowly, that Eskom shouldn’t be a supplier of renewable energy as well’