Learners from across South Africa will showcase innovative research projects at the Eskom Expo regional science fairs. More than 6 000 school science projects will go on display across SA from late July as the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists 2026 holds its annual regional science fairs. The 38 regional events follow 287 district expos held earlier…
The Koeberg nuclear power station north of Cape Town. Image: Eskom Eskom has denied that workers at the Koeberg nuclear power station suffered radioactive contamination requiring iodine treatment. This is after weekend media reports alleged that about 150 employees and contractors were exposed in incidents at the plant this month. News24 reported on Sunday that around…
Eskom’s Rivoningo Mnisi Eskom has secured the government approvals it needs to establish Eskom Green as a wholly owned subsidiary able to raise its own funding, in a key milestone in the utility’s long-running unbundling programme. The approvals, granted in terms of section 54(2) of the Public Finance Management Act read with the conditions of…
Eskom CEO Dan Marokane. Image: Eskom New rules governing electricity trading in South Africa are imminent, Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has said, while defending the utility’s controversial court challenge over trading licences and suggesting critics who call it anticompetitive either haven’t read the draft rules or have “read them and not understood them”. In an…
Eskom has removed more than 1.1 million customers from load reduction schedules, with five of South Africa’s nine provinces now entirely free of the practice — a milestone in the utility’s programme to eradicate load reduction nationally by March 2027. Mpumalanga is the latest province to be cleared, joining the Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free…
Eskom board chairman Mteto Nyati speaking at the launch of Eskom Green Eskom on Tuesday launched Eskom Green, a dedicated renewable energy business that the utility says will scale solar, wind, hydro and storage to as much as 32GW by 2040, with its leadership insisting the new unit will work with private developers rather than…
Junaid Munshi, Eskom group executive for the distribution division. Eskom has appointed telecoms veteran Junaid Munshi as group executive for its distribution division, effective from 1 June. In a statement, the power utility says Munshi is a seasoned executive with more than three decades of engineering, marketing and commercial leadership experience in the technology and…
Junaid Munshi Eskom has appointed telecommunications executive Junaid Munshi as group executive of its distribution division, effective 1 June 2026. Munshi has 30 years of engineering, marketing and commercial leadership experience across South Africa and several other African markets. He was most recently chief commercial officer at Cable & Wireless Seychelles, where he oversaw commercial…
Eskom’s Lethabo power station in the northern Free State Eskom Green has begun construction on a 75MW solar power plant at its Lethabo power station in the Free State – the first utility-scale renewable plant to be built on the footprint of an existing Eskom coal-fired station, and the start of a much larger pipeline…
Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme that could be launched within 12 months, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The state-owned utility, which runs Africa’s only operational nuclear power station near Cape Town, is preparing a request for information covering up to 5.2GW of…
