Eskom, South Africa’s largest contributor to international greenhouse gasoline emissions, has created a brand new function, group govt for renewables, and appointed Rivoningo Mnisi to the place.
The transfer alerts the state-owned electrical energy utility’s willpower to develop using renewable power sources in its era combine, which has traditionally primarily targeted on its fleet of coal-fired energy vegetation that contribute considerably to air air pollution and local weather change.
In an announcement on Friday, Eskom stated Mnisi will concentrate on delivering an Eskom renewable power enterprise “that can turn out to be a big participant on this section, specializing in work already in progress for an executable preliminary pipeline of a minimum of 2GW of fresh power initiatives by 2026”.
“He can even lead the development of Eskom’s pipeline of greater than 20GW of fresh power initiatives to diversify its power combine as a part of the emissions discount technique,” it stated.
Mnisi was beforehand chief technique officer at sources group Exxaro. He has additionally labored for Anglo American and holds a bachelor’s diploma in industrial engineering from the College of Johannesburg, a BSc (honours) in utilized science from the College of Pretoria and an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Enterprise Science.
On the identical time, Eskom stated it has appointed Candice Hartley as chief individuals officer.
“A key space of her focus will likely be to make sure Eskom has the abilities the organisation requires to function in a aggressive market. She can even transition Eskom’s human capital practices and workforce plans to align with the technique and make sure the wider adoption of know-how throughout the organisation,” the utility stated.
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Earlier than becoming a member of Eskom, Hartley was govt companion and head of individuals at KPMG in South Africa. She has additionally labored for AECI, British American Tobacco, Pernod Ricard, Lenovo, Barloworld, Commonplace Financial institution and South African Breweries. She holds an MBA and has accomplished a PhD via the school of commerce on the College of Cape City. – © 2025 NewsCentral Media
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