The Uneven Renewable Energy Transition Playing Out in Africa

Joseph Dana
4 min readJan 25, 2022
The west coast of South Africa

The west coast of South Africa is a barren slice of inhospitable land at the bottom of the continent. Less than an hour driving outside Cape Town, the terrain radically transforms into a rugged and nearly alien landscape. Arid vegetation abruptly meets the frigid waters of the Atlantic ocean. This unlikely slice of Earth has become a backdrop for the global shift from fossil fuels to…

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