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Stop-start government approach puts a spoke in the wheel of renewable energy boom

By Melanie Gosling

11 November 2018

South Africa’s renewable energy programme has the potential to become the country’s single biggest infrastructure project, bringing in R25bn a year in direct foreign investment, delegates heard at the Windaba wind energy conference in Cape Town. But there are obstacles to this being realised. One is the debilitating ‘stop-start’ nature of the government’s renewable energy programme. READ MORE

Lazard says ‘inflection point’ reached making new renewables cheaper than existing coal

A new US study comparing the costs of energy from various generation technologies indicates that an “inflection point” has been reached where, in some cases, it is more cost effective to build and operate new renewable-energy projects than to maintain existing conventional generation plants.READ MORE

Energy plan’s drafters are stuck in a coal hole and have just kept digging

Eskom can save cash by procuring new renewables to displace energy from most existing power stations, writes Grové Steyn

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Future is renewable energy

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Renewables Dawn?

Resistance persists despite declaration of new renewables dawn

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South Africa signs first of R55.92bn renewable energy deals

After months of delays and legal challenges.

South Africa signed long-delayed renewable energy contracts worth R55.92 billion with independent power producers on Wednesday, in the first major investment deal under President Cyril Ramaphosa.READ MORE