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  • CIC Energy enthused and disappointed by Eskom's strategy shift 2 Dec 2009 15:46 GMT
    ... CIC Energy enthused and disappointed by Eskom's strategy shift 2nd ... ago The shift in focus towards private power provision in Eskom's latest tariff application was ... 1 200-MW Mmamabula coal-fired power station, in Botswana, which is arguably the most advanced base-load ...

  • No Kusile delay in SA's Cabinet-endorsed electricity road map 3 Dec 2009 17:45 GMT
    ... Africa's inaugural integrated resources plan (IRP1) for power generation, which was approved by Cabinet on ... Sere wind project and the Department of Energy's (DoE's) gas-fired peaking plant be delayed by 12 ... as the 1 200 MW Mmamabula, in Botswana, and the Moamba closed-cycle gas-turbine project, in ...

  • Energy Minister to brief SA on much-anticipated power-generation road map 2 Dec 2009 17:06 GMT
    ... which will set the framework for future energy supply in South Africa. Drafts of the IRP ... solutions in the plan, while potential independent power producers (IPPs) have expressed concern about the ... importation of power from countries such as Botswana and Mozambique. It was also not immediately ...

  • BPC Announces Power Shortages As Eskom Cuts Supplies 30 Nov 2009 15:40 GMT
    ... BPC Announces Power Shortages As Eskom Cuts Supplies Nov 30, ... Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has warned of more ... when they have excess through our off-peak energy contract as well as annual arrangements," she explained. ...

  • Trowers, Dentons and Shearman close US$1bn Omani power project 2 Dec 2009 02:22 GMT
    ... Omani state, the Salalah independent water and power project (IWPP). Once the already-delayed project is ... electricity and water sectors. London-based head of energy, transport & infrastructure, Christopher McGee-Osborne said that closing ... a coal-fired power and mining project in Botswana, while the firm’s New York team is ...

  • Government to revamp Air Botswana 30 Nov 2009 06:34 GMT
    ... decided to revamp the national airline, Air Botswana, after previous attempts to privatise it hit ... The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Water Affairs, Mr Gabaake Gabaake asked the ... Gabaake asked the tour operators to adopt electricity saving measures as there would be a ...

  • PHK attributes dysfunctional solar panels to poor workmanship 27 Nov 2009 09:26 GMT
    ... poor workmanship GABORONE - Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources says he is aware that ... of the condition of solar panels across Botswana is already underway and currently, the assessment ... Botswana project will be run by Botswana Power Corporation (BPC Lesedi), a joint venture between ...

  • Fiddling while shadows grow 30 Nov 2009 06:10 GMT
    ... EVERYONE says they support private power producers. No one is actually prepared to ... plans on ice. Companies such as CIC Energy, which has a siz able coal-fired power station project in Botswana that is ready to roll as soon ...

  • Fiddling While Shadows Grow [editorial] 30 Nov 2009 09:14 GMT
    ... Johannesburg — EVERYONE says they support private power producers. No one is actually prepared to ... plans on ice. Companies such as CIC Energy, which has a siz able coal-fired power station project in Botswana that is ready to roll as soon ...

  • SA, China trade triples 30 Nov 2009 17:51 GMT
    ... services in the same year at purchasing power parity. Moreover, in 2008, the BRICs accounted for ... Southern African Customs Union (SACU, which comprises Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) and ... by petroleum (not crude) and petroleum products, electrical and electronic equipment, and to a lesser ...

  • Govt Solar Panels Not Functioning Nationwide 1 Dec 2009 16:30 GMT
    ... Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources Ponatshego Kedikilwe, says that a ... of the condition of solar panels across Botswana is under way. He was responding to ... for integration and provision of off grid electricity services within the existing rural grid electrification ...

  • South African Markets - Factors to watch on Dec 2 2 Dec 2009 05:55 GMT
    ... with fellow shareholders the Oppenheimer family and Botswana, says it is willing to provide up ... Beers restructure its debt. South Africa's state-owned electricity company Eskom has cut a price hike ... a two-thirds majority that gives it the power to change the constitution looking likely as more ...

  • What this country needs is economic patriotism 29 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
    ... need for the state to repossess the energy sector, including, but not limited to, UMEME. He, ... exceptions (such as the leadership in postcolonial Botswana and Libya), our rulers are selfish. They ... above them in the national hierarchy of power. Most of our rulers - in politics ...

  • Walvis Still the Oasis of Opportunity 4 Dec 2009 17:37 GMT
    ... the town, while the construction of a power generation plant and the possibility of alternative energy sources through wind-power generation is a promising development. ... supply fish and related seafood products, while Botswana signed a 50 year lease agreement with ...

  • IAEA and the African Union Commission Agree to Cooperate in Tsetse Fly Eradication 27 Nov 2009 15:56 GMT
    ... Union Commission (AUC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding ... initiated action aimed at eradicating trypanosomiasis, including Botswana and Namibia, which have recently been successfully ... IAEA Deputy Director General in charge of Nuclear Sciences and Applications; Mr. Qu Liang, Director, ...


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