VOX POPULI ‘People are broken’ — Daily Maverick readers describe toll rolling blackouts take on their health and businesses 5 min 8 By Victoria O’Regan
POWER CRISIS ‘Effectively on ice’: Grid capacity constraints jeopardise some renewable energy projects 6 min 5 By Kristin Engel
RENEWABLE ENERGY Residential solar power systems: Soaking up the sun is rewarding, but it isn’t all plain sailing 9 min 17 By Sukasha Singh
POWER CRISIS Solar panel customers will finally be able to sell excess electricity into the SA grid 3 min 13 By Ed Stoddard
HAVE YOUR SAY South Africans make a plan in the face of never-ending electricity blackouts 4 min 2 By Victoria O’Regan
HAVE YOUR SAY PART TWO Helpless, anxious and depressed — how Eskom blackouts hit ordinary South Africans 3 min 2 By Victoria O’Regan
ROLLING BLACKOUTS Waking up to Stage 6, now Eskom execs are fighting to fend off Stage 8 power cuts 3 min 11 By Ferial Haffajee
POWER CRISIS OP-ED SA lags behind in facing up to the magnitude of global energy insecurity 4 min 2 By Sharon Wood
OUR BURNING PLANET SOLUTIONS Land of the sharing sun – meet Japan’s farmers using solar power to grow profits and crops 4 min 0 By Shoko Oda
POWER PREDICAMENT Joburg residents sit in the dark for days as the city’s grid collapses 3 min 11 By Ferial Haffajee
ESKOM ALERT Stage 4 power cuts hit South Africa as nearly half the grid fails over Easter 3 min 9 By Ferial Haffajee
IN THE DARK Daily Maverick readers give a first-hand account of how load shedding has played havoc with their businesses 3 min 2 By Karabo Mafolo
