Up to 72 000 energy transition jobs could be created in Mpumalanga by 2030, study shows

South Africa’s Mpumalanga province can compensate for a large share of the job losses that will arise in its declining coal sector and lay the foundations for the creation of a new clean-energy hub for the country by scaling up investments in renewable energy and accelerating coal decommissioning, a new study shows. Published by the International Energy Transition and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, of Potsdam in Germany, the study assesses the co-benefits of a transition from coal to renewable energy.