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Leveraging South Africa’s renewable energy initiative to revitalise Merafong City’s distressed mining township economies

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This oversight engenders and promotes pro-market, favouring well-established private sector businesses to submit tenders as Independent Power Producers (IPPs). Consequently, it fails to create an enabling environment for local government to leverage South Africa’s REI4P as an LED initiative to revitalize distressed mining township economies, such as those in Merafong City. This policy brief outlines the potential and strategies for leveraging the REI4P to revitalize distressed mining township economies, utilizing township-based SMMEs as rooftop solar photovoltaic SSEEGs.

Source: Figshare

DOI: 10.14749/28839905

Author: Human Sciences Research Council

Language: English

Topic: Local Economic Development and Planning

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Affordable and clean energy, Decent work and economic growth, No poverty, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Human Sciences Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W6904787438

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