Infrastructure investment needed for transition

Local energy generating sites should be established throughout the country when providing sufficient capacity, says Economic Development Solutions (EDS) head of business development Eckart Zollner, pointing out that this will require substantial infrastructure investment, redesign and development. “We have the opportunity to redesign the electrification network and bring sources of generation much closer to sources of demand and use, because current legacy transmission networks bring about substantial inefficiencies and energy losses across hundreds of thousands of kilometres in our vast country.”