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The Energy Observer is the first-of-its-kind, zero-emissions vessel and has made its 80th stop in Cape Town as it travels across the world.

WWF welcomes the Presidential Climate Commission’s clear inputs and guidance into the contested space of South Africa’s electricity planning and management.  The PCC has consulted broadly and taken into account the technical expertise available within the country, and we consider the recommendations to be a sober balance of fiscal, social and environmental responsibility.

The least cost option for South Africa's electricity planning does not include new coal and nuclear, says the Presidential Climate Commission.

The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is recommending that the next edition of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which is currently under review, cater for the building of between 50 GW and 60 GW of variable renewable energy by 2030, supported by co-located storage of between 3 GW and 5 GW, as well as gas peaking support. It adds, too, that if anchored on a least-cost approach, South Africa should not build any new coal or new nuclear capacity, while also noting that renewables coupled wit...

The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) has over the last few months embarked on a consultative process in response to the call by Department of Mineral Resource and Energy for stakeholders’ inputs and recommendations on the revision of the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The Commission concluded its yearlong stakeholder consultative process on the options for the future of electricity planning and the evolving energy mix and has submitted recommendations to the Presi...

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In a keynote address at Daily Maverick’s first Earth Edition of The Gathering, former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter said South Africa’s interrelated energy and environmental crisis was an opportunity, not a threat. He outlined five arguments for decarbonisation. The panellists who spoke after his a...

South Africa will require gas in the medium term as it adds renewables to the power system, but there are concerns about power ships being a costly, corruptible option, warns Crispian Olver.