A cleaner energy future is filled with unknowns, risks and unplanned costs
Wind turbines at Kouga Wind Farm at Oyster Bay in the Eastern Cape. Picture: SUNDAY TIMESsupport for privately owned “green” energy options, when criticising mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe, might seem environmentally friendly and a response to load-shedding, but it places SA at enormous risk.
In response, will the DA in the Western Cape compel solar panel and wind turbine manufacturers to set up factories locally, to eliminate this risk? We now know how green lobbies destroyed Germany’s energy independence, in favour of imported gas from Russia. Was it captured? If we do choose cleaner energy, 95% of all components and infrastructure should be made locally, priced in rand. Resources for battery storage and electric cars, like lithium, cobalt and others, will have to be imported.
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