by admin | 2021, June, 15 | PTR Sonar Energy Storage
Bushveld Minerals, a vertically integrated vanadium producer, has announced the commencement of construction on a facility which will make electrolyte for vanadium flow batteries in South Africas Eastern Cape. Bushveld is one of three primary vanadium producers in...
by admin | 2020, November, 25 | PTR Sonar Transformers
South Africa, and Africa in general, are late adopters of dry-type transformer technology. However, there is an increase in demand for, and uptake of, the technology among a variety of applications, which points to a growing market across Africa. Although dry-type...
by admin | 2020, August, 3 | PTR Sonar Energy Storage
Eskom, the state-owned electricity utility of South Africa, launched the procurement for rights to design, engineer, supply, construct, test and commission a battery energy storage system of minimum size capacity 80 MW / 320 MWh in Western Cape. The proposed facility...
by Hassan Zaheer | 2017, April, 10 | Articles, Hassan Zaheer, Switchgear, Transformers
S&P has downgraded Eskom’s credit rating, dropping it from the lowest level of junk to “highly speculative”, with a negative outlook. This rating review follows its Monday’s announcement that it was cutting SA to junk – the first rating agency to do so....
