The Green Brief: Transmission, tariffs and the storage reset
This week: 3.2 GW of grid capacity reallocated, storage bids 31% below benchmark, and what Treasury's climate budget rules mean for municipalities.
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Infrastructure, Innovation & Impact
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Infrastructure, Innovation & Impact
This quarter's edition explores the infrastructure investments, policy shifts and innovation ecosystems accelerating South Africa's green transition. We open with the transmission build: 14 000 kilometres of planned line that will decide whether the next decade of generation capacity can actually reach a customer.
- · The transmission build, in delivery terms
- · Wheeling: what actually changed
- · Nine metros, nine IPP answers
- · Who's Who: Naledi Pillay on climate finance
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The Green Brief: Water is the constraint now
Non-revenue water passes 47% in a third of municipalities, industrial reuse economics, and the sanitation funding cliff.
GEJ Edition 47 is out: Infrastructure, Innovation & Impact
Read the new edition, plus the foreword from our editor and this issue's Who's Who interview.
The Green Brief: Disclosure season
IFRS S2 readiness across JSE mid-caps, the taxonomy uptake problem, and why ESG ratings disagree.
The Green Brief: Fleets, freight and the modal-shift argument
Electric minibus taxi pilots, depot charging as a network problem, and where rail beats electrification on tonnes.
The Green Brief: Circularity's unit-economics problem
EPR fees rise, recovery rates do not, and the reuse models that survived their pilot phase.