Real Economy
Join the least-cost highway
By: Terence Creamer 7th September 2018 The release of a draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2018) for public comment, is an extremely positive development. Likewise, the document’s... →
Power Shifts
By: Terence Creamer 31st August 2018 Electricity nerds such as myself are bracing themselves for a breathless few months, with significant developments on the horizon. Much of the... →
Milestones & Opportunities
By: Terence Creamer 24th August 2018 Fresh analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), showing that the combined installed base of wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) generators... →
Wood for the trees
By: Terence Creamer 17th August 2018 Asset manager Stanlib is currently flighting a fascinating series of radio adverts, which pose the question: Was your money ready for this week?... →
Tipping point?
By: Terence Creamer 10th August 2018 The dust has well and truly settled on of the tenth Brics summit, hosted in Johannesburg last month. While the event was generally viewed as... →
Has anything changed?
By: Terence Creamer 3rd August 2018 It would arguably be easier for a novice cyclist to take on Tour de France’s fabled Alpe d'Huez ascent than for the new leadership at Eskom to... →
Tight & Loose?
By: Terence Creamer 27th July 2018 The national security veto included in the Competition Amendment Bill, tabled before Parliament last week, has attracted much attention and... →
Time to embrace a Wild Boars spirit
By: Terence Creamer 20th July 2018 The evacuation of the 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand serves as a powerful... →
Rediscovering Mandela
By: Terence Creamer 13th July 2018 The great leadership challenge of our times is to make the correct decisions, and implement them, in a world that is increasingly failing to... →
Derisking Eskom
By: Terence Creamer 6th July 2018 The term ‘too big to fail’ came to the fore during the so-called Great Recession, which arose after America’s sub-prime mortgage crisis triggered... →