The Komati power plant community in South Africa suffered after Eskom closed it down in 2022 because workers were not offered new jobs or retrained. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Globally, nearly ...

South Africa’s Exxaro Resources Ltd. opened the expansion of a coal mine at its Matla operations that will keep a nearby power station supplied for nearly two more decades. The miner signed a contract ...

South Africa is poised to delay the retirement of about a fifth of its coal-fired electricity-generation capacity as gas projects earmarked to replace them remain behind schedule, contrasting a ...

Eskom revives 5 200MW Nuclear 2 plans at Thyspunt as activists warn of threats to squid grounds and coastal communities.

CAPE TOWN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Global commodity trader Vitol is backing a consortium planning to build a $3 billion gas-fired power station and liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility at South ...

CAPE TOWN, Aug 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's environment minister on Friday upheld a previous decision granting environmental authorisation for state-owned power utility Eskom to build and operate a ...

Eskom announced that Unit 1 at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, South Africa's only nuclear facility located in Cape Town, that is supposed to return to service this month, has been pushed back to ...

Petrol and diesel vehicles are being phased out globally and replaced with electric vehicles so that countries can meet their commitments to zero human-caused carbon emissions by 2050. But electric ...

Heavy rains have battered parts of South Africa, submerging whole neighbourhoods and flooding coal mines and power stations in a nation already hit by electricity blackouts. At least 700 homes have ...