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Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announces the launch of renewable energy procurement to make Cape Town SA's first load shedding-free city. Picture: @CityofCT/Twitter.

Blackout

Independent power producers could ‘lift the brake’ on SA’s economy: Hill-Lewis

By Kevin Brandt

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has stressed the importance of energy security for economic recovery and job creation.

  • FILE: South Africa continues to experience rolling power outages as Eskom bounces between stage 2 and 4 load shedding. Picture: 123rf.com

    It would take 1 min for Eskom's system to collapse, resulting in total blackout

    Professor Thinus Booysen has explained in much detail how the grid operates, and why a collapse could plunge the entire country into darkness for weeks.

    197 days ago
  • A picture shows storage tanks at the Zahrani power plant in Zahrani near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon (Saida) on September 18, 2021, as an oil tanker carrying fuel oil from Iraq, empties it's load at the power plant. Iraq will provide Lebanon with one million tonnes of fuel oil for its power plants in exchange for medical services, under a deal signed in July in Baghdad. Picture: Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP

    Lebanon in blackout as power stations run out of fuel

    The Mediterranean country is battling one of the planet's worst economic crises since the 1850s, and has in recent months struggled to import enough fuel oil for its power plants.

    228 days ago
  • FILE: Syria’s oil minister said the explosion could be a terrorist act. Picture: AFP

    Explosion at Arab gas pipeline leads to total blackout in Syria

    The minister said the explosion occurred between the Ad Dumayr and Adra areas in Syria.

    639 days ago
  • Picture: Pexels.

    Eskom says possibility of load shedding remains high this week

    The power utility said the system was severely constrained following unplanned breakdowns and poor maintenance which had left the grid vulnerable.

    930 days ago
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