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<title>Energy Industry Today: South Africa Electricity News</title>
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<title>Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 14&apos;27 August</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185303388</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 20:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  uses two natural gas deposits to generate power for a brewery, a glass factory and  ...  glass factory and a cement company. Nigeria, South Africa step up clean energy efforts Gas thermal,  ...  form part of to repair Nigeria&apos;s damaged electricity infrastructure. Meanwhile, the world&apos;s first hybrid wind-and-solar  ...
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<title>Co-Generation Woes Begin With Eskom Anglo American</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185294393</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 19:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  reserve margins, co-generation  the production of electricity using waste heat from industrial processes   ...  was not the core business of large power users already having to manage severe internal  ...  this year, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) highlighted Eskoms unsuitability to procure additional  ...
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<title>Blue Label Telecoms Group may venture into Nigeria and Ghana</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185290277</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 18:54 GMT</pubDate>
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... South Africa&apos;s Blue Label Telecoms Group is exploring opportunities  ...  results, which were the first since the company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, were  ...  Blue Label deals in prepaid airtime and electricity, bill payment, electronic funds transfer, loyalty programs,  ...
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<title>Coal Investments Set to Soar, Part 2</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185276332</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 17:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  accounts for about 50 percent of US power generation, our grid prices are bound to  ...  expensive winter for those who rely on electricity for heating this year... US: The Coal  ...  in Australian mines and power shortages in South Africa have cut sharply into their exports. As  ...
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<title>M&amp;R more than doubles order book to R55bn, earnings surge</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185272300</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 16:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in the year, increased activity in the electricity sector and minerals beneficiation had compensated for  ...  R3,6-billion the year before. M&amp;R said that South African mining activity had remained steady, while international  ...  a number of universities and technikons in South Africa during the year, while 20% of its  ...
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<title>Zille on the state of the city</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185259066</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 15:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  selected a top-notch team of international and South Africa experts in a consortium of the South African Sail Group and the French Stade de  ...  will start erecting the stadium roof. Our Electricity Services have started installing high voltage underground  ...
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<title>Power crisis cost SA $6,4bn</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185257434</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 15:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  lost 50 billion rand due to the power crisis which led to reduced supplies to  ...  stations, producing about 90 percent of its electricity supply. The utility has been battling to  ...  prices soaring. The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) in June granted Eskom an average  ...
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<title>Meralco pilots prepaid metering scheme</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185253040</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 14:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  chief operating officer Jesus Francisco said the power distributor wanted to determine which technology would  ...  know what model that is, since the South African model is the only one Ive looked  ...  the nine-page draft rules on prepaid retail electricity service (PRES), a distribution utility wanting to  ...
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<title>Electrical wholesaler ARB targets State-owned enterprises for growth</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185245130</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 14:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to continue driving sales growth for JSE-listed electrical wholesaler ARB in the future. The wholesaler,  ...  reported that despite the power crisis in South Africa, the electrification of rural areas would continue  ...  of their rural reticulation programme of getting electricity to all by 2014. Robertson explained that  ...
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<title>Ex-Storm investors in data centre deal</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185245002</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 14:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  wire-speed gigabit and Ethernet switches with redundant power supply. Power will be through two independent  ...  systems. Teraco claims to be the first South African commercial data centre that will have ISO  ...  second round. Van Wyk says the recent electricity crisis posed both an opportunity and threat  ...
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<title>Scotiabank&apos;s Commodity Price Index Climbs To New Heights in July</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185244850</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 14:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by smelter cutbacks in China to conserve electricity for the Beijing Olympic Games. Metal prices  ...  Ms. Mohr. &quot;China is experiencing a severe power shortage this summer (estimated at 30 GW  ...  Australian exports (though considerable expansion is underway), South Africa has prioritized coal for domestic use given  ...
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<title>Panic station inflation</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185238403</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 13:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) for its inflation target,  ...  from 11.6 percent year-on-year in June, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday. This is  ...  chiefly driven by rising food, petrol and electricity prices. A potential cut of R1/litre is  ...
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<title>Khompela flays media on Games reporting</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185237579</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 13:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Khompela made his statements shortly after the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) had  ...  other responsibilities like getting water, houses and electricity to our people, he said. Turning to  ...
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<title>S. Africa CPIX Inflation Rises To Record In July</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185233164</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 12:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  In July (RTTNews) - Wednesday, the Statistics South Africa announced that the country&apos;s consumer price index  ...  charges, largely due to a hike in electricity tariffs. On August 14, the South African Reserve Bank said in a statement that  ...
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<title>Blue Label Telecoms reports earnings</title>
<link>http://energy.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185232534</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 12:32 GMT</pubDate>
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... South African-based distributor of prepaid electronic tokens Blue Label  ...  and service offerings include prepaid airtime, prepaid electricity, bill payments, electronic funds transfers, loyalty programmes,  ...  mobile and fixed points of presence. In South Africa BLT has in excess of 120,000 points  ...
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