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Warning over coal-fired power

Burning coal

Burning coal

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1st October 2021

By: Marleny Arnoldi

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South Africa risks becoming an outlier in the global community if it pushes ahead with plans to develop new coal-fired power plants, says climate change think-tank E3G.

E3G says the country is driving these plans despite there having been a 76% reduction in proposed new coal power generation capacity globally, since the negotiation of the Paris Agreement in 2015.

The Integrated Resource Plan of 2019 makes provision for another 1.5 GW of coal power to be procured, but with an emphasis that that capacity must make use of more efficient coal technologies, such as high-efficiency, low-emissions technology.

However, as Eskom’s existing coal-fired power stations reach the end of their lives, that capacity is expected to be phased out, with about 5 400 MW of capacity to be decommissioned by 2022. That will increase to 10 500 MW by 2030 and to 34 000 MW by 2050.

Since 2015, 44 countries have committed to no new coal.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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