Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Connected: A solar panel is installed on the roof of a mud hut in Qhaka, a village near Port St Johns. Renewable energy can change the lives of people in remote areas.
While the transition offers an opportunity, “our concern is that opportunity is not being grasped”, Mash said, noting this is because the profits for energy — from the oil and gas industries, for example — have traditionally gone to shareholders and made the wealthy more wealthy. Mash added that every university and college should offer courses for young people to learn how to install and repair solar energy systems to prepare them for this energy transition.
Those who are most vulnerable in society are the most affected because they have less of a safety net and buffer against poor decisions the government is making, De Gasparis said.