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Nersa is proposing a new electricity pricing structure to reflect South Africa’s evolving and diversifying energy market.

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Authorities confirm methane gas caused last month’s explosion in Johannesburg city, which killed one person and injured several others.

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“The era of global boiling has arrived”, said UN chief António Guterres, and leaders must take drastic and immediate action to limit climate catastrophe.

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Where governments and corporates are failing to take adequate climate action, a new report details the growing trends in litigation against them.

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The IEA says that clean energy investment in emerging and developing economies must grow to USD $2.8 trillion annually by the early 2030s.

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Investing in energy storage can quickly address load shedding and lay the foundations for a cleaner, more secure power system, said the IISD.

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Energy storage such as grid batteries and pumped hydro can address the electricity crisis and ease load-shedding, according to the new study.

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Strategy documents from one of the world’s largest fossil gas lobby reveal the industry’s campaigns to lock in fossil gas and stall progression to net zero worldwide. Analysis of the documents, published by the think tank InfluenceMap, shows the International Gas Union (IGU) has sought to redefine the role of gas in the face of growing […]

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