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AIDC statement on the Electricity Regulation Amendment Bill: Let’s keep our energy affordable!

On Friday 13 October, the Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) made a submission on the Electricity Regulation Amendment Bill advocating for the halting of the independent transmission company setup process.  Last month, the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and

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JUST TRANSITION OP-ED: Social ownership of renewable energy — searching for the deck chairs long after the Titanic has sunk

By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 19 Sep 2023  Why do the European failures in transitioning to social ownership of energy get so little attention? South Africa needs to understand where potential pitfalls lie and grapple with them as a

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AIDC climate justice digest

From 2009, the AIDC saw the necessity of integrating the ecological crisis and especially the climate crisis into its programmes and strategies, as a significant dimension of the overall crisis of civilisation which the world was facing. A major theme

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BJC Climate Change Webinar and General Meeting

Join the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) on Thursday, 13 April 2023 at 12PM as they host a webinar on Climate Change and the Financing of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P) with Andile Zulu, AIDC Energy Democracy Officer as a guest

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#FixEskom to address South Africa’s energy crisis: Private sector is the problem not the solution to the electricity crisis: a public pathway is possible!

Context: The escalation of load shedding and Eskom’s general debilitation has exploded into a national crisis. Unfortunately for South Africans, the government has not confronted this crisis with effective and just solutions.  After years of short-sighted policy choices, the government

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POWERLESS OP-ED (PART 2): We can’t just wave goodbye to Eskom – we need to fix it, and it’s possible

By Dominic Brown | Daily Maverick | 08 Feb 2023  Although many South Africans yearn to dump the state-owned power utility, fixing and maintaining Eskom’s power stations to boost energy availability is the quickest way to stabilise supply in the short to medium

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Op-Ed: We should be sceptical of climate loans

By Andile Zulu | Mail & Guardian | 25 Nov 2022 Who does the government serve? As people across the country struggle to survive, witnessing their country deteriorate because of pervasive economic dysfunction and misgovernance, the lethargy and inaction of the ANC government

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2022 School of Political Ecology

The 2022 Indian Ocean School of Political Ecology took place in the island country of Mauritius on the 25th of October and concluded on the 2nd of November. Over 130 delegates, hailing from numerous countries within the Indian Ocean and

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POWER CRISIS OP-ED| What to do with Eskom? Going beyond and behind the seemingly obvious solutions

By Jeff Rudin, Sean Sweeney and Brian Ashley | Daily Maverick | 17 Jul 2022  The government must accept the fact that the private sector is not gnashing at the bit in order to save South Africa from rolling blackouts: its

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IEA warns of ‘worrying trend’ as global investment in renewables falls

IEA warns of ‘worrying trend’ as global investment in renewables falls By Adam Vaughan | Original Source: The Guardian | 18 July 2018 Fossil fuels increased share of energy supply investment last year – the first time since 2014. The

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