基于南非船舶的能源计划的风暴酿造

[CAPE TOWN] A deal expected to be awarded to end South Africa’s continuing活力crisis could contribute to higher emissions and provide a short-term solution rather than a long-term one, experts say.

根据国际能源局（IEA）的数据report。

South Africa is facing some of the worst blackouts on record.Researchfrom the Pretoria-based Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), shows these rolling blackouts amounted to 530 hours without power in 2019 and cost the economy between R60 and R120 billion.

“Instead of renting out foreign-run power ships, which will ultimately leave us in 20 years’ time, we could be investing in infrastructure that would provide jobs.”

Thandile Chinyavanhu, Greenpeace Africa

On 19 March, Karpowership, a company that owns ship-mounted power plants, was revealed as a preferred bidder by South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy to provide 1,220 megawatts of energy under the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMI4P).

在这笔交易中，Karpowership将为南非提供五艘在2022年至2042年在液化天然气运行的电动船，费用为2180亿兰特（约合133亿美元）。

劳伦·赫曼努斯（Lauren Hermanus）说：“ RMI4P背后的想法是获得权力……停止负载掉落[停电]，并给我们足够的时间来推出长期的基础设施采购和提供可持续能源供应所需的长期基础设施的采购和投资。”南非开普敦大学，以及可持续发展网络Adapt的创始人。

“气体可以用来平衡可再生能源的系统，例如，由于依赖太阳或风而导致系统的可变性。”

However, Thandile Chinyavanhu, a climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace Africa, finds the deal’s proposed 20-year contract problematic.

她说：“这将使我们陷入更高的排放轨迹，直到2040年以后，没有明确的可再生能源采购计划。”“与其租借外国运营的电力船，最终将在20年之内留下我们，我们可以投资于为南非青年提供就业机会的基础设施。”

Over 41 per cent of South Africans aged 25-35 are currently without work, according to South Africa-based statistics agencyStats SA。Total unemployment in the country is at a record 7.2 million.

The potentialbeplay足球体育的微博环境的非营利组织绿色连接的能源顾问Liziwe McDaid说，Karpowership协议的影响也令人担忧。他们进行的调查显示，卡波尔统的环境评估缺乏关键beplay足球体育的微博dataabout its impact on local钓鱼和海洋社区。

“从环境管理的角度beplay足球体育的微博来看,(the] government didn’t have the full information on the table that it needed when deciding to approve Karpowership,” she says.

Karpowership did not reply to emails fromscidev.netfor a response to these concerns.

全球转变为清洁technologyhas been called for by the IEA, which urgesgovernmentsto put “R&D, demonstration and deployment at the core of energy and climate policy”.

For Hermanus, however, this shift cannot be made without localising manufacturing as part of a green industrialisation strategy. “It has to pursue a path that is job-rich and with equitable economic development,” Hermanus says.

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.