LETTER: SA’s power play
Taking 4,800MW of coal-fired generation off the table would really grab the world’s attention
15 September 2019 - 19:28
Richard Worthington argued in his climate action summit article that to make a real impression at the UN Climate Change Conference, the South African government should wipe 1,500MW of additional cold-fired generating capacity off the new integrated resource plan (IRP).
Given the global panic over climate change, which has largely gone over the heads of South Africans, obsessed as we are with internal problems, I think that our government would be underselling itself with such a proposal. When you don’t have good hand and are desperate, it sometimes pays to bet the house...
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