Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace
Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace
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可持续转型与可持续和平手册
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10.1007/978-3-319-43884-9_37
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2016
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Baker L
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Baker L
在数十年廉价、丰富的煤电之后，大型国际矿业和能源集团以及富裕家庭从中受益不成比例，南非正在经历一场供应危机。2011年，该国第一个电力综合资源计划在2010年经过长期和有争议的协商后颁布。该计划预计，到2030年，可再生能源将占发电装机容量的20%，约占供应量的9%。煤炭将保持最大的份额，同时还有一个潜在的但目前尚不确定的核舰队。本章的目标有两个方面：审查电力治理在南非和高度政治化的决策过程中，既得利益发挥了重要作用的IRP;并考虑在何种程度上IRP促进了低碳转型。本章发现，尽管创造了成功的可再生能源“利基”，但燃煤“政权”也在得到加强，分析中的电力结构正在助长不可持续的生产和消费轨迹。本章还考虑了可持续性的定义和“公正”过渡的概念。
After decades of cheap, abundant coal-fired electricity, from which large international mining and energy conglomerates and wealthy households have benefitted disproportionately, South Africa is experiencing a supplyside crisis. In 2011, the country’s first integrated resource plan for electricity (IRP) was promulgated following a prolonged and contested consultation process throughout 2010. This plan anticipates that renewable energy will constitute twenty per cent of installed generation capacity by 2030, which will deliver approximately nine per cent of supply. Coal will retain the greatest share alongside a potential yet currently uncertain nuclear fleet. The objectives of this chapter are twofold: to examine electricity governance in South Africa and the highly politicized policy-making process in relation to IRP in which vested interests have played a major role; and to consider the extent to which the IRP has facilitated a low carbon transition. The chapter finds that despite the creation of a successful renewable energy ‘niche’, the coal-fired ‘regime’ is also being reinforced and the electricity mix under analysis is fuelling an unsustainable trajectory of production and consumption. The chapter also considers definitions of sustainability and concepts of a ‘just’ transition.