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Your Piece of the Sun: energy poverty and gender in urban South Africa

16th August 2017 Ed@UET Blog

‘Your Piece of the Sun’ is a documentary which addresses the challenges of energy, gender and poverty in urban South Africa. It examines solutions and new approaches to energy service delivery. As evidenced globally, South Africa too is rapidly urbanizing with more and more people moving to cities in search

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Low carbon transition in South Africa: the governance and skills gap?

26th June 2017 Ed@UET Blog

by Stephen Essex, Plymouth University South Africa’s energy system faces significant generation and distribution challenges over the next few decades. Electricity generation is based heavily on fossil fuels, especially cheap coal, and so contributes to greenhouse gases and climate change. Rolling blackouts are clear signs of the declining reliability of

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Light services: energy poverty reconsidered 

11th February 2017 Jon Phillips Blog

by Saska Petrova, University of Manchester. Much of the academic and policy debates on energy poverty – defined as a situation when a household lacks socially- and materially-necessitated levels of domestic ‘energy services’ (Bouzarovski & Petrova, 2015) – is focused on a rather limited set of residential energy end uses. In

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Green energy transitions in South Africa: on what terms?

11th January 2017 Ed@UET Blog

by Deborah Potts, King’s College London. An energy transition in South Africa which achieves improvements related to environmental problems like climate change and does this at the same time as furthering the aims of social and economic justice – i.e. a ‘just transition’ – can probably safely be described as

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Why South Africa is finding it difficult to wean itself off coal

11th December 2016 Ed@UET Blog

by Lucy Baker (University of Sussex) and and Jesse Burton (University of Cape Town). South Africa has made domestic and international commitments to climate change mitigation. But the country continues to depend on coal-fired power plants, which provide 92% of its electricity. A key challenge for the country in dealing with

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Global energy services: towards a comprehensive understanding

15th November 2016 Ed@UET Blog

by Stefan Bouzarovski, University of Manchester. With 2015 being declared the International Year of Light and the Obama administration recently announcing the ‘Clean Energy Savings for All Americans Initiative’, questions around energy poverty – the inability of households to secure socially- and materially-necessitated levels of energy services in the home

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Municipalities under pressure – Energy transitions, the apartheid legacy and South Africa’s fractured urban system

17th October 2016 Ed@UET Blog

by Jiska de Groot, University of Cape Town. South Africa’s cities are faced with a central dilemma: how to address historical injustices and advance redress, whilst stimulating energy transitions and low carbon development? What does such a ‘just transition’ look like in a South African urban context? It will be

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