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Cosatu will 'take to streets' if Eskom tariff approved [Engineering News]

Coalition Against Nuclear Energy responds to Eskom's Electricity Price Increase - Read more here.

UK firm enters SA Renewable Energy Market [Engineering News] The article states: "RES, which is in the process of establishing an office in Cape Town, said that the projects, located in the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape, were in the early stages of development, and have an estimated installed capacity of about 300 MW.

"We have studied the market thoroughly and believe it is a very good opportunity for private developers, as well as for the South African State and government, to be able to have large amounts of renewable energy within the next few years,"

Power Consumption 'Baseline Rules' Being Formulated to first be applied to SA's big Electricity Consumers. This Engineering News article states: "The final draft technical specifications outlining how power-consumption and -allocation baselines should be calculated have been completed and are being prepared for publication, opening the way for the implementation of the much-discussed power conservation programme (PCP), probably initially involving the country's 300 largest electricity users."