South Africans are accustomed to government mismanagement and corruption. They’ve suffered for years from periodic blackouts at state-owned power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., seen…
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The public enterprises minister is looking to save the 16,000 jobs dependent on the power utility. Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has given a…
With more load shedding this week, Eskom continues to struggle to supply power to South Africa. But 13 years ago, Medupi was hailed as a…
Denmark has reportedly set a record by sourcing almost half of its power from wind energy. The European country received 47 percent of its electricity…
FRANCE: Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the Prime Minister of the Iranian regime during the war with Iraq, was also a protest candidate in the presidential elections of 2009.…
Chronic incompetence, affirmative action, poor maintenance and Third World chaos have plunged South Africa into yet another power supply nightmare with nationwide blackouts—euphemistically called “load-shedding”—while…
NASA has made a surprising discovery in California after it flew a plane across the state outfitted with specialized gas-imaging sensors. The new data, published this…
According to the official, widely reported story, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) shut down substantial portions of its electric transmission system in northern California as a precautionary measure. Citing…