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International experience suggests South Africa can benefit by focusing on a simple restructuring of its power utility, allowing well-run state-owned entities to flourish.
South Africa’s biggest successes in the last year in relation to energy have been in regulatory matters.
South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme has the potential to restore energy security and eventually reduce power prices.
Continuous growth of energy production and consumption, even from low carbon energy sources, could create more problems than solutions.
Developments in the energy sector shouldn’t be reduced to technological sophistication. They should be guided by how they improve the livelihoods of the intended beneficiaries.
When policymakers reduce electricity scarcity to a few factors like theft and vandalism, to be solved with technology and stiff penalties, they miss other factors that contribute to electricity theft.
Customers, cities and investors are all eager for a piece of PG&E, but it isn’t the only US utility that may have new owners soon.
South Africa’s independent regulators have failed. Instead of introducing new ones, alternatives need to be found.
Electric utilities have a right to make money on their government-granted monopolies, but customers also have a right to know what cyber-protections they would get if they paid more.
There’s no easy way for Eskom to claw its way out of the crisis it’s in.
South Africa’s president has committed to structural reforms in the energy sector.
One way to cut your household bills could be to deal with just one company for all your utility needs. With today’s technology, it’s an idea that’s not so far fetched as it sounds.
A closer look at the supposed successes of Brian Molefe at South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, shows that they are not what they have been made out to be. They are paper thin.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Consulting Economist; and Senior Research Fellow University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
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Researcher in Renewable Energy, University of Cape Town
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Research associate, University of Cape Town
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Research associate, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct Instructor of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Springfield
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Associate Professor of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor, Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Business and Economics, Georgetown University
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
