Terence Creamer is the Editor at Creamer Media's Engineering News. He specializes in energy and mining, focusing on topics such as energy policy and regulation, renewable energy, and the environmental impact of mining. Terence's work has been featured in Polity, Research Channel Africa, Engineering News, and Mining Weekly.
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By: Terence Creamer
Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) insists that it is fundamentally stronger than was the case 18 months ago and that “profitability
By: Terence Creamer
Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) insists that it is fundamentally stronger than was the case 18 months ago and that “profitability is within reach”, after reporting a headline loss of R1.49-billion during the first half of 2026. The JSE-listed company had, over the past 18 months, placed its longs business into care and maintenance, leading to the closure of the Newcastle Works in KwaZulu-Natal, which contributed to some of the nonrecurring costs during the period.
By: Terence Creamer
Cabinet has approved the publication of the much-anticipated Revised Electricity Pricing Policy for public comment, amid growing affordability concerns following years of above-inflation tariff hikes.
The uptake of rooftop solar in South Africa has increased dramatically over the past five or so years, spurred initially by the extreme loadshedding from 2021 to 2024.
By: Terence Creamer
A large-scale hybrid renewable energy project able to supply 75 MW of dispatchable renewable electricity to South Africa’s national grid between 5:00am and 9:30pm daily has been officially inaugurated. Known as the Hydra project, the facility was procured under the so-called Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP), which was launched by the then Department of Mineral Resources and Energy during the peak of the country’s loadshedding crisis in August 2020.
The giant 420 MW Northern Cluster, comprising three large wind farms under construction in the Karoo, is still anticipated to enter into commercial
By: Terence Creamer
The first 25 turbines at Seriti Green's Ummbila Emoyeni Wind Farm, which is rising in the coal heartland of Mpumalanga within site of the giant
By: Terence Creamer
Private railways company Traxtion reports that the first eight of 46 Wabtec C28 locomotives it is buying from KiwiRail in New Zealand for R1.8-billion arrived at the Port of Durban in early August.
By: Terence Creamer
Eskom board chairperson Mteto Nyati has struck a somewhat cautious tone regarding the timing of the transfer of the utility’s transmission assets to the proposed independent Transmission System Operator (TSO). “The Eskom board shares President Ramaphosa’s vision of an independent Transmission System Operator that will own the transmission assets at the appropriate point in the future,” Nyati said in a statement.
By: Terence Creamer
National Treasury director-general Dr Duncan Pieterse says there is strong interest from institutional investors to support government's public
