Countries such as Vietnam and Egypt have proved that energy crises can be addressed much faster than building more power stations
Conspiracy theories and uninformed gossip thrive on crises. Take SA’s energy crisis for example. Persistent blackouts for 14 years are blamed on a rotisserie of excuses, from wet coal and poor maintenance to corruption, sabotage and unprotected strikes.
Besides crises being fertile ground for conspiracies, they also come with opportunities. When something is broken it creates an opportunity to fix it. In response to SA upping its international commitment to reduce the discharge of carbon pollution by 2030 ahead of the COP26 climate talks last year, an International Partners Group comprising France, Germany, the UK, the US, and the EU signed a political declaration with SA that included an offer of $8.
The country has additionally invested in more than 101,000 smaller-scale solar installations, raising the solar output 25-fold while protecting businesses. This solar generation has the same capacity output as six coal plants, is cheaper and is faster to produce. Clean energy should therefore not be a conversation for the future, it’s an emerging market, an answer to our energy crisis, and the only thing holding SA back is itself.
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