South African parastatal Eskom has announced an increasing number of repeated equipment failures in some areas, especially within Gauteng. The utility has attributed this to illegal connections leading to overloading, which results in failure of transformers and mini-substations. This is exacerbated by meter tampering, electricity theft and vandalism of infrastructure. In a company statement, the…

Harare City Council and power utility, ZESA are involved in a stare down over rates they owe each other amounting to over RTGS$200 million, NewZimbabwe.com has learnt. City Mayor Herbert Gomba told NewZimbabwe.com’s current affairs programme, The Agenda, that besides the fact that ZESA was operating on city land without paying anything, the parastatal had…

The House of Representatives summons the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) alone with the Ministry of Mines and Energy to appear before full plenary next Tuesday to account for moneys received from the Government of Liberia and to explain why the electricity program in the country is very poor and slow. Montserrado County District#7 Representative Solomon…

Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba will engage with Eskom officials over the power utility’s apparent threats that it will not repair infrastructure in areas where there are high levels of non-payment. Mashaba said he received some complaints from Soweto residents who called for his intervention. It was previously reported that Soweto has been ranked as one…

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) on Sunday approved a soft loan of 99.7 million dollars to finance the high voltage 400 kv electricity transmission line from Temane, in the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane, to Maputo. According to a source in the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, contacted by AIM on Thursday, the total…

RioZim says its US$1,5 billion investment into building a 2 800 megawatts thermal power station in Sengwa, Gokwe North, remains firmly on course with the company now moving to the next phase of preliminary works, which entail, chiefly, signing a power purchase agreement. Notably, RioZim said the Sengwa project was part of two power initiatives,…

The City of Tshwane will delay increasing electricity tariffs until after public consultations which are set for Monday, Mayor Stevens Mokgalapa announced on Wednesday after internal consultations. “We agreed that the City will take action after public consultations by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) scheduled for Monday, July 15, before finalising approvals,”…

Power Distribution Service (PDS) has denied claims it has failed to pay to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) for power supplied since taking over the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on March 1 this year. William Boateng, Director of Communications, PDS, said the PDS neither owes nor have a contract with the IPPs. “The IPPs got…