Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) director-general Jacob Mbele has given his department’s conception of what a just energy transition would look like. He was responding to a question during a panel discussion at the Windaba 2022 conference, on Wednesday morning, in Cape Town. The energy transition refers to the global move away from high carbon-emitting energy sources to low- or even zero-carbon emitting energy sources. “For us, as the DMRE, we’re responsible for the security of energy supply,” he pointed out. “So, a just transition for us is a transition in which there is a secure energy supply, and that energy supply is sustainable [including regarding the environment and climate change], that energy supply is affordable, [and] reliable. Those for me are the key parts of what would be just.”
