China, Europe and the Geopolitics of African Renewable Energy
The China in Africa Podcast
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How Do You Scale Up Renewable Energy Systems?
More traditional fossil fuel or nuclear energy base energy systems are arstructured around a relatively limited number of a very high capacity, a capacity power plants. When you're shifting towards renewable energy, it is a lot more to modular, based on on smaller, smaller, sk smaller scale power plants and different levels of capacity as well. And the way thatthat in some, some african countries,. the start of that expansion, including in south africa, as happened, is moving towards the liberalized system where you have auctions for forrenewable energy and of independent power producers.
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