Interactive website launched on South Africa’s Just Energy Transition
An interactive website about the challenges and opportunities that South Africa faces in the country’s transition to cleaner energy is now available at this link - The Road to a Just Energy Transition.
Published by The Outlier, with support from the Pulitzer Center, the website highlights the details of the Just Transition in five key South African regions – Mpumalanga, Gauteng, the Northern Cape, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape.
The Outlier’s Alastair Otter explained that, “Early on in the project we decided on the metaphor of a road trip: what would it look like to follow the transition as it moved from the Mpumalanga coal fields to the wind and solar opportunities in the southwest of South Africa.”
As such, the Road to a Just Energy Transition website hones in on the following topics:
- Komati, Mpumalanga: What happens when the country’s oldest power plant is decommissioned? Eskom’s Just Energy Transition projects include innovative microgrids built in containers as well as farming with fish manure.
- Melrose Arch, Gauteng: Hit by constant loadshedding, one of Johannesburg’s wealthiest business districts took matters into its own hands.
- Prieska, Northern Cape: It may be a small town in the middle of nowhere, but it has big potential to be the home of clean energy for the entire country.
- Cape Town, Western Cape: The city has introduced a feed-in scheme where businesses and residents can get paid for the excess power they feed into the grid. But does it pay?
- Cookhouse, Eastern Cape: We end with the first wind farm to connect to the national grid – and how this project is giving young people in the town new reasons for hope.
Visit the Road to a Just Energy Transition at the following link https://roadtojet.theoutlier.co.za/
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