Moving to renewable energy will boost economic growth, Valli Moosa says

Replacing SA’s ageing 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 SA’s decades-old, coal-fired plants are due to close anyway, said Valli Moosa, deputy chair of the Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission...

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