BOTTERILL, BRITTANY D.San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
I haveresearched transitions for 30 years. If the South African government does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, it must urgently end the current crisis by shifting decisively towards arenewable energyeconomy based on South Africa's extraordinary wind and solar resources. What went wr...
Scientists from South Africa are experiencing the pain of the country’s ongoing power outages and are concerned about the impact the crisis is having on their research output. Image Credit: US Army, (CC BY 2.0). The crisis is caused by old infrastructure, poor management by the state-owned...
South Africa cannot solve a pressing energy crisis while senior government figures seem to openly disagree on the way forward. The message of joint commitment to the implementation of the electricity plan is therefore to be welcomed. Confidence would be further cemented by concerted attempts to recla...
Rolling blackouts are costing South Africa dearly. The electricity crisis is a barrier to growth, destroys investor confidence and handicaps almost every economic activity. It has raised input costs for producers and retailers, and has triggered a new round of inflation and interest rate increases. ...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in this year's annual State of the Nation Address described the "electricity crisis" as one of the greatest threats to economic and social progress, adding that the government has taken "firm steps" to produce additional generation capacity. ...
The car analogy should make it clear that "just procuring more power" could make Eskom's financial crisis much worse. Wind and solar power have a role but also particular limitations that are often given inadequate attention. They cannot be relied on to produce electricity whenever it is needed...
"But we are not stopping there," said the president, who declared a national state of disaster in his SONA last year to respond to the country's electricity crisis. "To ensure that we never face a similar crisis ever again, we are reforming our energy system to make it more competitive...
Aggregate electricity demand in South Africa: Conditional forecasts to 2030 In 2008, South Africa experienced a severe electricity crisis. Domestic and industrial electricity users had to suffer from black outs all over the country... R Inglesi - 《Applied Energy》 被引量: 146发表: 2010年 ...
and as a result, on February 09 2023, the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster to respond to the electricity crisis in his State of Nation Address. This declaration highlights the magnitude of the problem facing South Africa and its different stakeholders...