The cold corridors of South Africa's once-mighty Komati coal-fired power plant have been quiet since its shutdown in 2022 in what was trumpeted as a pioneering project in the world's transition to green energy.Two years later, plans to repurpose the country's oldest coal power plant have amounted to...

“They effectively just shut down the coal plant and left the people to deal with the outcomes,” said deputy energy and electricity minister Samantha Graham.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    24 days ago

    Coal provides 80 percent of South Africa’s power and the country is among the world’s top 12 largest greenhouse gas emitters. Coal is also a bedrock of its economy, employing around 90,000 people.

    As though the USA isn’t in the top three.