While any funding of South Africa’s embattled energy sector is welcome, South Africa should not “be pushed into a corner” on how this money should be spent, says South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) CEO Dr Zwanani Titus Mathe. “South Africa should not be dictated to on what technologies should be considered. Of source we should consider renewables…but the negative impact may be that we may be told to use this money only for solar or wind, and not for clean coal [projects].
