Solar powered water heaters on rooftops above shacks in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Installing enough solar panels and battery storage to see a household through a week without sunshine isn’t yet financially possible.
An employee makes fermentation notes by torchlight during a power outage period at a brewery in Cape Town, South Africa.
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The new book is structured around apartheid profiteers, war profiteers, state capture profiteers, welfare profiteers, failing auditors, conspiring consultants and bad lawyers.
South Africa’s Kusile coal-fired power plant is the fourth-largest coal plant in the world.
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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.
The governing ANC’s policy proposals don’t inspire confidence.
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The deliberations were characterised by disingenuous, counter-factual policy pronouncements, and de facto denials of the ANC’s culpability in causing many of the current problems facing the country.
The hybrid nature of threats to South Africa’s energy infrastructure can only be solved by an integrated solution, including severe sanctions that should include fines and imprisonment.
South Africa is likely to see more renewably sourced energy come onto the grid more quickly.
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Considering South Africa’s climatic advantage, the fraction of electricity generated from renewable energy technologies is low.
Atul Gupta (pictured) and his brother Rajesh are the alleged masterminds behind state capture in South Africa.
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If South Africa fails to implement the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan, it will lead to the demise of Eskom as an energy producer as users turn to alternative electricity sources.
Electricity pylons at night in Johannesburg South Africa, the country’s economic hub.
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Economic and energy policymakers are responsible for increasing both demand for and supply of electricity. There must be a surplus of energy which will encourage economic growth.
Coal fired power station in South Africa .
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The urgency of the climate crisis was overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic for a while, but the South African government displayed a renewed climate focus over the past year.
South Africa has borrowed US$7bn from international financial institutions since the start of COVID.
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