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Just Energy Transition
What happened at Komati power station? Lessons for a public pathway to a just energy transition
The Komati repowering and repurposing project can be considered a failure—but it didn’t have to be.
The private sector continues to stifle democracy
Energy sector trade unions have expressed profound worries about what the Just Energy Transition Partnership will mean for workers.
CAMDEN POWER STATION: THE WORKERS’ STORY
Interview with Camden NUM leadership Amandla!: So we're sitting here with load-shedding. It persists. In general, it gets worse. Why in your view is this the case? What is happening that is causing us to have this level of load-shedding or even load-shedding at all?...
KOMATI DECOMMISSIONING: A SPECTRE DUE TO HAUNT THE JUST TRANSITION
ON 31ST OCTOBER 2021, A WEEK before COP27 in Egypt, South Africa’s oldest standing coalf ired power station, Komati, was closed. Commissioned in the early 1960s, Komati, rated at 1GW, formed part of the extensive network of coal-fired power stations which account for...
NOT JUST… NOT A PARTNERSHIP… NOT A WAY TO ACHIEVE AN ENERGY TRANSITION!
AT THE LEVEL OF THE UN, THE North long ago acknowledged its ecological debt to the South, and its responsibility to channel finance towards the South to help developing countries both reduce their emissions and adapt to a warming world. The North has nevertheless...