Four years since President Jacob Zuma’s government launched its renewable energy plan, it has fed over 1,000 MW of power into its strained system, which regularly plunges millions of homes into darkness and shaves about one percent of growth in Africa’s most industrialised economy.
“Africa is blessed with huge amounts of sun, wind and biomass and South Africa’s example of putting in stable regulation should inspire other countries to scale up its renewable energy production,” Christine Lins, the executive secretary at REN21, a green energy policy network told the South African International Renewable Energy Conference (SAIREC).
