The Just Energy Transition Investment Plan doesn’t take into account the people who will be most affected by SA's move away from fossil fuels
A wind farm in Caledon. Picture: JACQUES STANDER/GALLO IMAGES
The JET-IP emerged after talks between SA and the so-called International Partners Group — comprising France, Germany, the UK, the US and the EU — and it estimates the first phase of SA’s just energy transition plan, between now and 2027, will cost R1.5-trillion. While R150bn has been secured in funding from the IPG, 96% of that is in the form of loans and guarantees. That places the financial risk of investing in the just energy transition on ordinary South Africans.
Whether the JET-IP will deliver a just energy transition is also debatable for several other reasons. The first relates to its actual creation, which draws its “principles and priorities” from the national Just Transition Framework published by the Presidential Climate Commission last year. The JTF states that the principles of distributive justice , restorative justice , and procedural justice must inform all planning and decision-making throughout the just transition process in SA.
In fact, the IPG and the PCFTT created five working groups to facilitate the development of the JET-IP. There has been no civil society, let alone community, representation in these groups
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