Government’s free basic electricity (FBE) programme has failed to provide financial relief to poor South Africans, according to environmental researcher Dr Neil Overy and EarthLife Africa Johannesburg ...

Eskom board chair Mteto Nyati has called for the government to increase the free basic electricity (FBE) grant from 50kWh and for municipalities to ring-fence their electricity budgets to ensure the ...

Free basic electricity worth 50 kWh will be given to low-income households who can prove they meet the qualifying criteria. Low-income households in Johannesburg have one month left to register for ...

When President Bola Tinubu was reported as saying that he should not receive votes in 2027 if he failed to fix electricity, and there was no rebuttal, I was overjoyed. But one sometimes fears that the ...

Electricity provision by municipalities, particularly in smaller municipalities, is becoming increasingly unsustainable. A confluence of rising costs, high unemployment, and the inadequacy of current ...

Innovative approaches are needed to address the needs of the 1.3 billion people lacking electricity, while simultaneously transitioning to a decarbonized energy system. With particular focus on the ...

The rules of the National Electrical Code are written for people who have a pre-existing knowledge of electricity. In order to make sense of the Code, you must first understand basic electrical ...

A storm of protest is brewing after City Power raised its prepaid electricity prices to the majority of its indigent customers by six to 12 times the inflation rate, and well above Eskom’s prepaid ...