Barriers to powering past coal: Implications for a just energy transition in South Africa

Mirzania, Pegah; Gordon, Joel A.; Balta‐Ozkan, Nazmiye; Sayan, Ramazan Caner; Marais, Lochner

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2023.103122

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“…Major financial institutions like HSBC Bank have also aligned themselves with these climate targets (HBSC 2022). (The same logically applies to coal, but in SSA, coal consumption is dominated by South Africa, which is already planning a coal phase-out (Mirzania et al 2023)).…”

Section: What Energy Transition Means For Fossil Fuel-dependent Econo...mentioning

confidence: 95%

Leapfrogging the darkness: contextualising the meaning of energy transitions for African countries

Sterl,

Shirley,

Githinji

et al. 2024

Prog. Energy

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This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of research on African energy transitions and pinpoints critical questions that require answering to allow science-based policymaking. It highlights unique elements of energy transitions research in the African context and explains why these need deeper research to enable decisions informed by clear and objective country-specific analysis. In doing so, it pinpoints clear areas of future research that are urgently needed at the country-level to enable science-informed policy to support sustainable economic development.

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Section: What Energy Transition Means For Fossil Fuel-dependent Econo...mentioning

confidence: 95%

Leapfrogging the darkness: contextualising the meaning of energy transitions for African countries

Sterl,

Shirley,

Githinji

et al. 2024

Prog. Energy

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“…First, nongovernmental stakeholders and civil society groups have complained of a lack of transparency within the process and worry that such promises of collaboration and engagement will not be kept (Lüpke et al, 2023;Wemanya & Adow, 2022). Second, recent research from Mirzania et al (2023) reiterates the lack of transparency while also noting the absence of monitoring in the transition towards renewable energy, despite official criteria and frameworks in place within South Africa. These developments could call into question its effectiveness, considering that transparency is a precondition for accountability (Gupta & van Asselt, 2019).…”

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Fit for purpose? Just Energy Transition Partnerships and accountability in international climate governance

Earsom

2024

Global Policy

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This contribution examines whether just energy transition partnerships (JETPs), a new type of financial agreement between G7/G7‐allies and low‐to‐middle income states, can serve as accountability mechanisms for the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It identifies important structural elements from the existing literature on climate governance for holding actors to account and then assesses the extent to which they are present within JETPs. While JETPs appear in theory to offer increased potential to shore up accountability in the UNFCCC, the case of the South African JETP demonstrates that the presence of these structural elements is likely insufficient to ensure accountability vis‐à‐vis the UNFCCC. This preliminary analysis therefore finds several practical limitations to accountability within JETPs and dense governance spaces in general. It thus points to the importance of identifying the underlying conditions needed for institutional accountability structures to function as designed.

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“…In these figures, the probability density distribution, calculated following the maximum entropy principle outlined in Eqs. (4,5,6) is plotted as appeared in blue color, from where it is seen that both the frequency and probability density distribution have the same shape. The distribution is normal for the horizontal plane, while for the inclined plane, the distribution is the increasing function of the irradiation.…”

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“…The actors thus involved in the field of energy the support of the government intend to popularize the production of appropriate and adapted solar electricity, promote self-employment and reduce the consumption of energy sources, fossil fuels [6]. For the moment, electrical energy still remains a big problem for households and businesses in Chad [7].…”

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Mathematical Prediction of Electrical Solar Energy Based on Solar Data for Two Main Cities of Chad: Mongo in the Centre and Pala in the South of Chad

Ali,

Nediguina,

Kriga

et al. 2024

JEECE

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The comparative study of the solar powers between two main cities of Chad is performed in the present work, the city of Mongo in the Centre and that of Pala in the South, with an aim of knowing which one of the two cities is more adequate for an installation of the solar power station, taking into account the regional climatic and environmental conditions of both cities. To do this, the graphical statistical analysis of long-term solar irradiance data and temperature is performed. The data used is that of the decade (2010-2020), based on solar radiation data handed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PGIS) for Mongo in the centre and Pala in the south of Chad. The shape of the mean monthly irradiation has been plotted and has been approximated using the sinusoidal function through the mean square analysis. The temperature data has been also obtained by the same process and plotted versus irradiance in order to find the adequate mathematical relationship between them. For the statistical analysis, the maximum entropy principle has been used. As results, it is found that the maximum irradiance is obtained in March, which are 226.26kWh/m2 for Pala and 219.355kWh/m2 for Mongo, while the minimum irradiances are obtained in August, which are 151.67kWh/m2 for Pala and 158.9kWh/m2 for Mongo. The temperature data is also obtained and the mean monthly data plotted, showing that apart for the months of March and April, the the shapes of irradiation and temperatures are similar for both sites. Then it is found that the frequency and probability density distributions reach their maximum at the same dates.

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Barriers to powering past coal: Implications for a just energy transition in South Africa

Cited by 25 publications

References 155 publications

Leapfrogging the darkness: contextualising the meaning of energy transitions for African countries

Leapfrogging the darkness: contextualising the meaning of energy transitions for African countries

Fit for purpose? Just Energy Transition Partnerships and accountability in international climate governance

Mathematical Prediction of Electrical Solar Energy Based on Solar Data for Two Main Cities of Chad: Mongo in the Centre and Pala in the South of Chad

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