Creecy: Komati power station not a good test case for just energy transition

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The ANC takes climate change seriously and has done so for the past 30 years, the minister said

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“And so, one found that those people who supplied meals … those who were service providers to Komati, those are the enterprises and individuals that have suffered through the closure of that power station.” “It was running efficiently, producing the necessary energy that we needed and creating jobs. For the ANC to have just gone to shut down is their response to demands from foreign governments for us to switch over from coal to renewables.

“But more work and a lot more finance will be required to reduce emissions and make a fair share contribution to holding global average temperature increase at the 1.5°C mark, an increase that science tells us is preferable to the average temperature increase of 2°C.” “However, we are within the NDC of reducing greenhouse gases that we have submitted to the United Nations and we intend to remain within the 2025 target and in due course, within the 2030 target.”said his party had made significant strides towards developing climate change legislation in the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape, pointing out that the strategy was developed by the City of Cape Town in 2017 while the provincial government had updated its climate strategy in 2022.

“One of the things that we’re going to commit to as the DA if we are able to form the centre of a new national government is to review and to streamline the restrictive regulations that are currently limiting both the public and the private and public sector in terms of more rapid procurement in new renewable energy generation and capacity.”The climate transition is an important economic opportunity for the country, Creecy said.

 

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