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Diversified Energy Mix for A Clean Energy Transition
The world’s incredible decrease in energy consumption caused by COVID-19, and the unprecedented collapse of the oil and gas markets has some arguing that 2019 was the peak for oil and clean energy will dominate in the years ahead. This and more was unpacked during a renewable energy webinar hosted by the African Energy Chamber and Africa Oil & Power on Thursday. Under the theme ‘Is now the time for renewables?’ the webinar gathered high-level speakers including Nelisiwe Magubane, Chairperson, Matleng Energy Solutions; Suzanne Jaworowski, Senior Advisor, Policy & Communications, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy; Massaer Cisse, General Manager, Lekela Power Senegal and Dr Clinton Carter-Brown, Head of the Energy Centre, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
The session highlighted the impact of COVID-19 on global renewable energy development discussions. According to Massaer Cissé: “COVID-19 has sparked a new discussion on the importance of renewables and we can expect renewable energy to be central topic in all conversations to come. According to the International Energy Agency, 72% of all installed power capacity globally in 2019 originated from renewable energy, and it expects it to grow in 2020, despite the pandemic. COVID-19 is by definition a shock but it’s a temporary event. The long-term trends preexisting prior to the pandemic remain true today. Renewable energies are now very competitive and are able to function without subsidies. Africa’s impact is relatively small on the global scale for global warming and climate change; however, we are primarily impacted. Therefore, Africa has a responsibility, beyond economic considerations, to contribute to finding solutions. I believe the renewable energy outlook remains very positive.”
Nelisiwe Magubane, from Matleng Energy Solutions, expressed concerns around the pandemic encouraging countries to halt the race to renewables and focus on indigenous assets, including fossil fuels: “We have seen countries having more nationalistic agendas in order to protect their assets and revitalize their economies, thus translating to the use of more indigenous resources. Africa is well-endowed with renewable energy resources and it has become very competitive compared to other energy sources. However, it can’t meet peak demand, depending on the country. Other energy sources are needed to complement renewables, and the overall goal is to lower emissions, rather than aim right now to bring it down to zero. We need to have a pragmatic approach to deploy an energy mix benefitting the country and the environment.
Suzanne Jaworowski, from the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy underlined the importance of market volatility and reliability issues linked to the energy sector globally, and how the pandemic has highlighted those two challenges as central to a sustainable energy sector.
COVID-19 has sparked a new discussion on the importance of renewables and we can expect renewable energy to be central topic in all conversations to come
As an advocate for the development of nuclear energy, Suzanne highlighted technology advancements which make nuclear a viable option for African countries in terms of cost as well as security: “Nuclear is a serious option to be considered in terms of energy transition. Smaller modular reactor designs which will come online in the next few years are economically competitive with combined cycle natural gas plants. Of course, each country must decide what is best, but major nuclear technology advancements make it worthy of taking it into account. Nuclear is a lot more accessible cost wise making it a viable option.”
The discussion also touched on natural gas as a prime fuel for energy transition. As an energy specialist in South Africa, Dr Clinton Carter-Brown commented: “Ninety percent of South Africa’s electricity runs on coal. We have one of the highest numbers of emissions per capita across the globe. The shift from coal to renewable is particularly key in our country, economically and in regard to the energy transition. Natural gas will have a major role play in the transition, provided we are able to build the appropriate processing and transport infrastructure. The energy transition will create immense employment opportunities and is a major challenge in the years coming up.”
Finally, the discussion touched on localization and local content. Although it is hot topic in the oil and gas space, local capacity development is equally, if not more, important in the renewable energy sector as it is home to major technology innovations.
Massaer Cissé used the telecommunications revolution as an example to show that the energy sector is on the verge of its own revolution: “The energy sector is following the path of telecommunications. When mobile telecommunications came online, previously isolated communities suddenly could access mobile solutions. In the energy sector, mini solar kits, portable battery storage solutions, small wind power plants among others, are setting the energy on the path of revolution, in which renewables are a key component. Nuclear also has a major role to play because the main driver of the energy revolution is technological. “
Nelisiwe Magubane brought up the issue of intellectual property as a key component of the regulatory frameworks to be designed by governments: “Renewable energy is an opportunity for African countries to create proprietary technology, be strict about intellectual property and drive technological innovation and energy independence.”
Final words from Massaer Cisse underlined that the renewable energy revolution has not been hindered by COVID-19. “We all agree that the current situation is not sustainable. Energy sources don’t need to be mutually exclusive. Oil, nuclear, natural gas, coal have the biggest role to play. Renewables is here to stay and grow.”
16 Comments on "Diversified Energy Mix for A Clean Energy Transition"
makati1 on Sat, 30th May 2020 6:34 pm
“A perfect storm develops: 40 million unemployed, economy crashed, record polarization and wealth inequality at extremes, the country is quickly descending into chaos into the summer months. So what happens when the government stops unleashing helicopter money for people who recently lost their jobs?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/america-descends-chaos-nationwide-unrest-erupts
“President Trump signed an executive order in late March that allows the Pentagon to mobilize up to a million troops to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The order could now be directed at social unrest. It’s only a matter of time before more state governors activate National Guard troops like Minnesota did early this week.”
Gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight! Papers please! ^_^
JuanP on Sat, 30th May 2020 6:41 pm
“Gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight! Papers please! ^_^”
Stop the drama, maks. You need to be looking around your own part of the world that is a mess. @<@
makati1 on Sat, 30th May 2020 7:55 pm
Davy, my ‘area’ is in great shape compared to Amerika. You can deny and try to put it down but reality rules.
No riots here. No burning and shooting here. No looting here. No huge debt load here. Not so in dying Amerika.
“There Will Be A Lot More Rioting, Looting And Civil Unrest As The U.S. Economy Continues To Crumble”
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/there-will-be-a-lot-more-rioting-looting-and-civil-unrest-as-the-u-s-economy-continues-to-crumble
“America Descends Into Chaos Amid Nationwide Attacks “Designed To Destabilize Civil Society””
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/05/30/america-descends-into-chaos-amid-nationwide-attacks-designed-to-destabilize-civil-society/#more-218952
Hell is coming to Amerika. After all, all hell’s demons already run Amerika. Casinos open. Churches closed. Liquor and gun shops open. Beaches closed. And on and on. ALL bullshit!
Anonymouse on Sat, 30th May 2020 10:05 pm
Amerika is seeing riots and fires everywhere. With some crowds attacking uS propaganda facitiites. CNN, now CBS.
https://www.rt.com/usa/490275-cbs-la-riots-attack/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
Going to kind of hard to pin these on ‘globalists’ when the crowds are starting to lay siege to amerikan propaganda facilities owned and controlled by said globalists, right?
In any event, It would something to see crowds trashing these studios to shit, or better yet, just burn them to the ground like those police stations. LoL. Amerika. Wont be defeated on some far off battlefield in Asia or Europe, though that always remains a possibly of course, but, more likely, by the descendants of the (now) rather large underclass they brought in as slaves from Africa, Mexico and South America to pick their cotton, and crops on its mega-scale toxic industrial farms and feedlots.
LOL, karma.
makati1 on Sat, 30th May 2020 11:09 pm
Anon, you got the picture correct. if I read an article right, they even spray painted graffiti on the Federal Reserve building. They know who caused all of this. Burn Washington and NYC doewn. Throw in Silicon Valley and the homes of the government whores. GO TRUMP! LOL
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 30th May 2020 11:57 pm
This is a sneak preview of and the first round of mobilisation for CW2. Although the globalists take the side of the “protestors” (looters, really), the looters don’t return the favor as they attack the globalist media, that are seen as “white”. Van Jones, who I appreciate for his eloquency, has now even said on CNN that the white Hillary supporters, like “Karen”, are more dangerous than your average KKK-fool in his bed sheets. Van Jones seems to be burning his ships behind him, leaving him with no allies.
Racism.
Racism is a jewish-invented smearword, a weapon-word, a media-word, to fight natural tribalism. The word needed to be invented because the inventors and users of the word intend to conquer the entire world, which is impossible if tribes keep fighting each other. They got very far with it and managed to turn the famous “melting pot” USA into a pressure cooker, with a malfunctioning “Power Off”-button.
Perhaps they manage to put down the insurrection this time around, but it will continue to simmer below the surface. And really explode at a next occasion, for instance in November. Nobody knows the exact timing. Perhaps it takes warm weather for such an event.
Justifications will be found, like the eternal “slavery”-argument, but the real underlying cause, that will never go away, is tribalism. There is not a iota of hope that the situation will converge in a end-situation of stable harmony. The only reason why the situation hasn’t escalated earlier, was because the whites were in the majority, a majority that is evaporating. And the dark underclasses smell their chance to subjugate whitey once and for all, for the first time in history, where so far it was always the other way around. Whites as the new tax slaves of the dark people. And if whites will continue to refuse to fight, that’s going to be their fate.
But I strongly doubt they will roll over without a fight. If they do, the fate of the US and its empire will be sealed and will go the way of the Soviet dodo, that other Jewish-invented shit-pile.
At any rate, the liberation of Europe of the kikes and their Anglo-water carriers is near and roles will be reversed. Or as Lord Heseltine put it: Germany is going to win WW2.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/24/lord-heseltine-suggests-brexit-allowing-germany-win-world-war/
Dolfie was right all along. If you don’t put them on the train, they will destroy you. Either with communism or multiculturalism or a world-war. Now America will be destroyed and J-power will be destroyed with it.
Davy on Sun, 31st May 2020 3:21 am
Cloggnatzi, I remember when your idol, Ape Man, chastised you for your jew obsession. It was hilarious to see you whine like a widdle boy. I am going to find that thread one of these days when I have time. LMFAO. I have nothing but time in case you didn’t know.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 31st May 2020 3:51 am
“I remember when your idol, Ape Man, chastised you for your jew obsession.”
What does that mean on a board… “chastise”?
Show me the link.
The Darwinian truth is that I pushed him from this board, as I pinched through his cover and exposed him from what he was and linked his anti-white obsessions with his jewish identity. An act, a stupid dumb sell-out hick from the Ozarks can only dream about. Once you have put a yellow piece of cloth on them, these folks become powerless. And they know from historic experience what comes next.
#110
“It was hilarious to see you whine like a widdle boy.”
Show me the link. You can’t.
You and joe esquire will always choose the side of those who are working tireless towards your destruction. A better definition of a total lack of character and spine is not possible. Stockholm syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Whatever. This time you and joe will get your sorry asses kicked. Enjoy your encounters with anonymous and JuanP in real life.
JuanP on Sun, 31st May 2020 5:11 am
Anon, I remember when your idol, Ape Man, chastised you for your jew obsession. It was hilarious to see you whine like a widdle boy. I am going to find that thread one of these days when I have time. LMFAO. I have nothing but time in case you didn’t know.
REAL Green on Sun, 31st May 2020 5:14 am
Cloggnatzi, I remember when your idol, Ape Man, chastised you for your jew obsession. It was hilarious to see you whine like a widdle boy. I am going to find that thread one of these days when I have time. LMFAO. I have nothing but time in case you didn’t know.
JuanP on Sun, 31st May 2020 6:22 am
I remember my idol, Ape Man, chastised me for my stalking obsession. It was hilarious to see me whine like a widdle boy. I am going to find that thread one of these days when I have time. LMFAO. I have nothing but time in case you didn’t know.
DT on Sun, 31st May 2020 6:22 am
so true juan, so true
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 31st May 2020 6:24 am
Juan, just go to the doctor and get a prescription. Try therapy. If you are suffering mental issue the first step to recovery is admitting you are crazy
Davy on Sun, 31st May 2020 7:20 am
Does anyone think I should take my own advice first before counselling others about how to deal with going crazy? That would be more fair than lecturing a complete stranger about mental health issues am I right.
What do you all think?
JuanP on Sun, 31st May 2020 7:35 am
Does everyone think I should take my advice first with counselling? This is the way to deal with going crazy? Thats fair! I should not be stalking and trolling a complete stranger and deny I have mental health issues am I right?
What do you all think?
Anonymouse on Sun, 31st May 2020 7:35 am
so true juan so true