#PowerTracker to monitor renewables across SA
Our pioneering project gears up to track the JET journey beyond the country’s energy capital. Andiswa Matikinca and Roxanne Joseph report...
25 September, 2024
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Mpumalanga is going with the wind
Wind farms are picking up speed in the province at the heart of South Africa’s energy transition, reports Thabo Molelekwa...
24 July, 2024
Mpumalanga joins the green hydrogen shift
HySHiFT project at Secunda is pioneering sustainable aviation fuel to help meet South Africa’s industry decarbonisation goals. Thabo Molelekwa investigates...
25 October, 2023
Mind the (green skills) gap
SA’s transition to renewable energy is challenged by a shortage of skills development and training. Thabo Molelekwa investigates, with support from the Pulitzer Center...
04 April, 2023
Where are Mpumalanga’s new energy projects?
South Africa’s power capital is being left behind in the race for renewable energy generation, reports Andiswa Matikinca...
02 March, 2023
Tracking renewable power in Mpumalanga
The second iteration of the Oxpeckers #PowerTracker programme zooms in on the financing of renewable energy projects in Mpumalanga – the focus area of SA’s Just Energy Transition. Andiswa Matikinca...
19 January, 2023
Journalists liberate new #PowerTracker data to follow energy investments
Local journalists create and share a new dataset that untangles green energy investments across Southern Africa...
05 December, 2022
#PowerTracker journalists tell stories with data
By the time our latest in-depth training session – storytelling with data – came to a close, our #PowerTracker grantees could more confidently call themselves data journalists...
29 August, 2022
Meet the #PowerTracker journalists
Oxpeckers’ latest project, #PowerTracker, brings together journalists from across Southern Africa to investigate financing of renewable energy projects...
12 August, 2022