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Barriers to powering past coal: Implications for a just energy transition in South Africa

Pegah Mirzania, Joel A. Gordon, Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan, Caner Sayan Orcid Logo, Lochner Marais

Energy Research & Social Science, Volume: 101, Start page: 103122

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The feasibility of South Africa's just energy transition, as dictated by the speed of phasing out coal and scaling up renewables, will rest on a range of techno-economic, socio-political, and socio-technical factors. Interactions between these dimensions of the transition carry significant impl...

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ISSN: 2214-6296
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