CLIMATE CHANGE HEARINGS

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CLIMATE CHANGE HEARINGS

• MamaEarth
• WADE
• The Democracy Foundation

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FUNDAMENTALS

• To address the negatives outcomes, certain
  essentials are needed
• An Enabling environment so that individuals and
  municipalities can do the right thing
• Co ordination of the activities of stakeholders
  in the process.
• A champion and high profile role models to lead
  the way.

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RIGHT versus WRONG

• What is the right thing?
• It is to steer away from wasteful use of natural
  resources
• From inefficient use of dirty energy sources
• From centralized provision of energy by one
  utility Eskom,
• Towards
• Energy Efficiency
• Renewable energy
• Decentralized energy provision from multiple
  sources.

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TARGETS

• The Integrated Resource Plan which is the
  framework within which energy planning is done
• Business as usual with regard to energy
  production. RE will supply a mere 700 MW of
  electricity to reach the measly target of 10 000
  GWh of RE by 2013. 70 MW if target is cumulative.
  
• 40 will come from Solar Water geysers and 60
  from electricity. The figure given to me by
  parliaments research is that all we had
  installed by last year was approx 450 GWh of RE
  cumulatively over 5 years. ( 5)

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PROSPECTS????

• So not only is our current performance dismal but
  the IRP aims at little better.
• Even the best scenario offered therein would not
  meet 50 of the LTMS target agreed to by cabinet.

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SOLUTIONS

• Green Energy Act
• REFITs, solar water heating, access to and
  control of the grid
• overarching framework for the development of a
  strong RE industry.
• My bill supported by other parliamentarian in
  eREACT could form the basis of this
• A national law should provide a framework for
  obligatory introduction of solar water geysers or
  heat pumps at local level.
• National building codes should be immediately
  reformed to cater to best environmental practices
  wherever possible, including to allow for
  municipal solar water by law. This is a task for
  SABS but someone has to push them to act quickly.

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SOLUTIONS

• A model law for Municipalities
• - mandate introduction of SWH or heat pumps -
  purchase electricity made from bio-mass and feed
  it into the grid.
• The grid needs to be repaired and expanded. An
  international donor would surely fund a national
  review of the grid.
• Rules should be adopted allowing reverse metering
  of pv power into the grid with technical features
  that make this safe.

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SOLUTIONS

• A working group or advisory panel could be
  appointed to bring representatives from the
  ministries involved in RE out of their silos, to
  bring energy planners out of hiding and to
  incorporate some NGOs, business representatives,
  academics and international financiers. They
  could also examine the financial assumptions in
  the IRP and provide input on the possibility of
  rapidly changing SAs energy agenda.