SOUTH AFRICA’S NEW GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO REPAIR COUNTRY’S STRUGGLING POWER SECTOR
July 22nd, 2024
South Africa has struggled to keep its lights on over the past four years. Corruption, mismanagement, theft and delayed projects have all taken their toll on a creaking electricity grid, while setting back plans for an energy transition towards renewables. But with a new broad-based coalition government elected into power in May (2024), and a newly created stand-alone energy and electricity ministry, there is optimism that power generation issues will be taken more seriously going forward.
South Africa’s acute energy woes date back to 2007, when the ...
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