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Bright future: Wind energy projects in Mpumalanga have the advantage of using existing infrastructure from coal plants. Photo: GKR Falcon / Flickr

Mpumalanga is going with the wind

Wind farms are picking up speed in the province at the heart of South Africa’s energy transition

Eskom chief executive Dan Marokane says coal is important for the country to drive industrialisation. (Getty Images)

Eskom won’t ditch coal, delays decommissioning power stations

Chief executive Dan Marokane says coal is important for the country to drive industrialisation

Jason Swartz, Portfolio Manager, Old Mutual Investment Group.

Local assets offering better returns this year, but value trap on the horizon

Old Mutual Investment Group have identified four key themes that will drive their investment decisions next year

The Just Energy Transition is a shift to lower carbon technologies and resources, while ensuring that society, jobs and livelihoods will not be harmed. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Power struggle threatens just energy transition

As we undergo the greatest economic shift of our time, we have to guard against malevolent private interests

Tourism minister Patricia De Lille.

De Lille emphasises need to grow tourism on visit to Kruger

The department has given R76.1 million for energy and water-saving measures at tourism sites as part of the Green Tourism Incentive Programme, Patricia de Lille says

Protected: To ensure that Africa’s renewable energy future is sustainable and equitable, there must be free, prior and informed consent during all stages of such developments. (Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

When crisis hits, follow the money

In the urgency that has accompanied the shift to green energy, private finance threatens to encroach on public interests

Although many might be eager to see Eskom go away, there are valid reasons for questioning how effective government reforms to the energy sector will actually be. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

Communities vital to Mpumalanga’s energy transition — premier

Mtsweni-Tsipane stresses the importance of getting communities’ buy-in and says that no one must be left behind

Communication professionals have a role to play in bridging this gap, translating the sustainable development goals into relatable narratives that resonate with people and inspire collective action.
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The status of SA’s energy transition financing

Much has been made about the $8.5 billion pledged to support South Africa’s Just Energy Transition

No time for smiles: Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, South Africa’s electricity minister, second left, during a visit to the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Lethabo coal-fired power station in Vereeniging, South Africa, on Thursday, March 23, 2023.  (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Editorial: The electricity ministry needs to get going

Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has a tough challenge ahead

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe

Government at the forefront of implementing mixed energy technologies for security of energy supply

Good progress is being made to reduce South Africa’s reliance on a few primary energy sources

If the sun sets on coal mines and oil rigs, a new horizon emerges: the dawn of a renewable energy revolution. But what happens to the workers whose livelihoods are tied to the old way of doing things? (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Eskom workers worry the just transition will shed jobs

Workers at coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga remain concerned despite assurances that the transition will be just

Energy dilemma: The Cattenom nuclear power plant in France. The country is reliant on nuclear energy. (Sebastien Berda/AFP)

Nuclear power is not the answer to the Earth’s energy crisis

It is too slow and too expensive to compete with energy-efficiency measures and renewable energy

The World Bank has said that it’s in South Afica’s best interest to move from coal to renewables. (Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Moving from coal towards renewables is in SA’s best interest, says World Bank

SA’s three transitions will cost R8.5-trillion per year between now and 2050

Reducing imports: Nigeria’s Kaduna Refinery is expected to resume operations by 2023. Photo: Andrew Holt/Getty Images

COP27: Scramble for Africa’s gas – and some countries on the continent keen to comply

Contrary to the push for clean energy, several African countries want to develop gas fields for local use and export. And, with Russia’s war in Ukraine, Europeans are ready to…

:Delegates listen to speakers at the opening ceremony of the High Level Segment of The United Nations Climate Change Conference on December 15, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

COP27: More empty promises or will it bear fruit?

Will African countries get the climate pledges owed to them by wealthier nations or will it be more empty promises