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Replacing South Africa’s aging and inadequate electricity generation capacity with renewable energy plants is an opportunity to spur economic growth and cut emissions, according to Valli Moosa
Moosa was appointed as deputy chair to the 22-member Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission in December and effectively runs it, as its chair is President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The commission has members from major polluters, Eskom and Sasol, as well as labour unions, non-governmental organizations and the cabinet.
Replacing South Africa’s aging and inadequate electricity generation capacity with renewable energy plants is an opportunity to spur economic growth and cut emissions, according to Valli Moosa, the deputy chair of the Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission.
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SA adviser urges shift to renewables to spur growth
‘There is no shortage of appetite on the part of capital to invest in renewable energy in South Africa.’ said Valli Moosa
By Monique Vanek, Bloomberg
1 Jun 2021 09:06
Image: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
Replacing South Africaâs aging and inadequate electricity generation capacity with renewable energy plants is an opportunity to spur economic growth and cut emissions, the effective head of a presidential climate change commission said.
While many countries face the problem of having to idle fossil fuel-fired power stations to meet climate commitments, many of South Africaâs decades-old, coal-fired plants are due to close anyway, said Valli Moosa, deputy chairman of the Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission.