Léa Giroux, Head of Business Development, ENGIE South Africa

CONTINUOUS ENGAGEMENT BY STAKEHOLDERS CRUCIAL IN ENSURING ENERGY SECTOR IS SUSTAINABLE WHILE ALSO MANAGING SOCIAL IMPACTS OF SHIFT – AN ARTICLE CO-WRITTEN BY MATT ASH, TINA COSTAS, JAMES ROSS AND KELSEY PAILMAN. While there has been steady progress in the global transition from economies running on fossil fuels to sustainable energy development since the establishment […]

Director Woman published its 2026 cohort on 12 August, fifty-four founders and executives from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Botswana and Lesotho. Among them are the State Diamond Trader's chief executive, a steel fabricator in Kuruman, a Mpumalanga workshop owner preparing to supply the mining sector, and three founders turning waste and climate literacy into enterprises.

Deneys has returned as an independent South African law firm, reviving a name part of the country's legal landscape for over a century, now with 200 legal staff across three offices and a pipeline weighted towards energy and infrastructure. Jackie Midlane, Head of Banking & Finance, Projects, tells ENN what independence unlocks for clients building across the continent.

South Africa's transmission grid is gaining a new source of expertise as it prepares for higher shares of renewable power. On the sidelines of the Africa Energy Forum, Eskom, the NTCSA, France's RTE international and AFD signed a two-year technical cooperation programme to strengthen the grid's resilience, flexibility and capacity.

Seriti Green signed a further R10bn at Bethal on Friday as the first 155MW of Ummbila Emoyeni entered commercial operation, taking committed investment to R25bn. President Cyril Ramaphosa attended and said the company would reach R40bn, with a second wind development of 600MW planned beside it and 187 turbines between the two.

Advisers are due within weeks to open negotiations with the banks and funders holding Eskom's high-voltage assets as security. Valuation and the treatment of municipal debt sit beside that conversation, and Eskom itself has asked that any transfer wait until risks to its finances are addressed.

NERSA registered 124 generation facilities between April and June, carrying 804MW and R20.18 billion of investment. Two wind facilities account for 568MW of that. The remaining 122 are solar and produce 236MW between them, most of them small and spread across municipal networks.

Minister of Electricity and Energy Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has confirmed the proposed approach to the first section 34 determination under the IRP 2025, prioritising 4,600MW of battery storage and 5,000MW of gas-to-power. Wind and solar wait for a later determination, as the ministry sets out to cut curtailment before adding variable generation.