Cabinet has finally approved the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM), which will seek to leverage green industrialization opportunities from the country’s deployment of wind, solar and battery storage facilities.
“The masterplan focuses on solar and wind energy, lithium-ion battery and vanadium-based battery storage technologies and is designed to be a living document,” Cabinet spokesperson and Minister in The Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, announced.
Electricity and Energy Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré views SAREM as key to positioning South Africa as a supplier of renewable-energy components in Africa, where renewables generation form a key part of a joint World Bank and African Development Bank initiative known as Mission 300 to provide energy access to 300-million people on the African continent by 2030.
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