SOUTH AFRICA

摘要

The African continent and its use of energy resources has for many years been the subject of global debate. In many regions, energy supply fails to meet the demands of the consumers, not due to a lack of resources, but rather to a lack of infrastructure and effective policy making by government. Many regions in Africa, particularly Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Morocco, have made inroads into addressing the constrained energy supply in those regions by focusing their energy strategies on the development of a mix of energy technologies, including coal, renewables (including biomass and hydropower) and gas. On the back of this, several African countries have launched various programmes across technologies to encourage the participation of independent power producers in the development of the energy mix. Among these, South Africa's renewable energy programmes have been recognised internationally as having been very successful. South Africa has also launched a coal base-load programme and is in the process of initiating a gas to power programme, which we expect to be equally as attractive to international investors.