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Bobby Godsell presents at the EE Publishers Excecutive Business Briefing
At a luncheon hosted by EE Publishers on Friday 6 February 2009 at the Johannesburg Country Club in Woodmead, Bobby Godsell, chairman of Eskom, gave a presentation on the energy crisis and the way forward for South Africa.

Click here to listen to an audio streaming of Bobby Godsell's presentation (3,8 MB MP3 audio file)

Energy Conservation Scheme (ECS) Debate presentations
The ECS Debate organised by EE Publishers took place at the Bytes Convention Centre, Midrand, on Wednesday 23 October 2008, chaired by Thembani Bukula of NERSA. The following presentations are available for download here:

2008 Electricity Distribution Maintenance Summit Resolutions
The 2008 Electricity Distribution Maintenance Summit, was held at Gallagher Estate, Midrand, South Africa, on 9 and 10 October 2008.

The outcomes of the Summit are a set of Summit Resolutions that were unanimously adopted by the Summit Partners and delegates. A Summit Declaration will follow in the next few days.

EE Publishers reader survey 2007
In August 2007, EE Publishers conducted a detailed reader survey to get information of reader demographics, preferences and feedback on our various print/paper media magazines, e-mail based newsletters and web-based e-zines. Over 1000 readers completed the web-based survey in just one week, and the results are therefore statistically very meaningful. Please follow the links below to download PDF files of the various reports available:

Executive summary of independent technical audit on eleven electricity distributors in South Africa (105 kB PDF file)
Coinciding with the massive three-day power black-out in Bedfordview caused by failures on Eskom's high-voltage feeder cables, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) has released the findings of an audit it commissioned by independent consultants, Merz & McLellan South Aftica and their international associates, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) of Australia, into the state of eleven large electricity distributors in South Africa.

Draft South African Academy of Engineering Bill (100 kB Word doc)
In January 2007, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) issued a draft of the so-called "South African Academy of Engineering Bill" for comment and response by no later than Friday 2 March 2007. Responses may be made by email to the Department of Science and Technology, Legal Services, for the attention of Ms. Mapula Khuduga, mapula.khuduga@dst.gov.za

Review of security of supply in South Africa - a report to the Department of Public Enterprises (380 kB PDF file)
This report was formerly confidential to the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), but has recently been released into the public domain by the DPE. The study, by Duncan Wilson and Ivan Adams, was undertaken at the request of the director general of the DPE, and is a component of the program of Support to the Restructuring of Public Enterprises in South Africa (SRPESA), funded by the UK government's Department for International Development (DFID) and inplemented by Adam Smith International (ASI).

Mandatory surge protection in SA raises its head (again)...
chris.yelland@ee.co.za in this regard will be forwarded to the secretary of SABS StanSA subcommittee SC67F, Zandile Skhosana, skhosazd@sabs.co.za, for the attention of the committee.

National Working Group on Space Science and Technology - survey of the space arena in the SADC (256 kB Word doc)
This is a survey of the utilisation of space science and technology in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) contracted to the National Working Group on Space Science and Technology (NWGSST) by the national Department of Science and Technology (DST) of South Africa.

NERSA report on the Western Cape power power outages (200 kB PDF file)
This is the full 23-page report by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) on the findings of its investigation into the electricity outages in the Western Cape for the period November 2005 to March 2006. This report specifically excludes any investigation into the "Bolt in the Generator" incident that occurred at Koeberg power station on 25 December 2005.

Eskom report on the Koeberg "Bolt in the Generator" incident (185 kB PDF file)
This is the full executive report on the Generator 1 stator earth fault "Bolt in the Generator" incident at Koeberg power station on 25 December 2005, by K L Rodseth PrEng, D Nicholls, incident investigation manager, and L Mthombeni, corporate technical audit manager, on behalf of Eskom's Corporate Technical Audit Department.

Details of NRS 034 Domestic Load Research Program (1,9 MB Word doc)
This includes details on the background to the research, with reference to a specific example at the Matshana site (KwaZulu Natal, 2004) showing the winter average and 98th percentile load profile summary for weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays, together with some fascinating site photographs of the electricity environment at Matshana.

"The Chinese Dragon... poised to take on the world" (2,84 MB PDF file)
A presentation by Dr. Michael Power, Equity strategist, Investec, given at the EE Publishers annual breakfast at the Indaba Hotel, Fourways, on Friday 3 February 2005.

Draft Electrical Installation Regulations dated 15 August 2005
The Minister of Labour intends to repeal the Electrical Installation Regulations, 1992, of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993, and supersede them by revised draft regulations dated 15 August 2005. Interested persons are invited to submit any substantiated comments or presentations on the proposed regulations to the Director General of Labour, Private Bag X117, Pretoria, 0001 (for the attention of the chief inspector: Occupational Health and Safety), within 90 days from 15 August 2005 i.e. by 15 November 2005.

Electricity Regulation Bill
As introduced in the National Assembly as a Section 75 Bill and published in the Government Gazette No. 27984 of 31 August 2005 for public comment. Stakeholders interested in making representations to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Minerals and Energy may contact the committee secretary, Shanaaz Isaacs, at (021) 403-3763 or e-mail her at shisaacs@parliament.gov.za

Department of Labour information brochure
Requirements and procedures for registration as an Accredited Person (electrical tester for single phase, instalantion electrician, and/or master installation electrician) in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993) as revised April 2003.

Working Group draft for SANS 1489, Part 1: Electrical Connectors in Group I and Group II Hazardous Areas
This draft has been made available for comment. Please provide your comments by email to SAFA as soon as possible, but certainly before 18 November 2005.