The global energy transition, driven by our shared need to decarbonise, and the increased and sustained deployment of renewables, has led to a profound change in energy systems. This change, not limited to the variability introduced with renewables within utility scale power systems, but also within the domains of mobility, small-scale and embedded generation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the underlying shifts of digitisation, amongst others, is fundamentally altering the supply, demand, and management of energy carried to end-users.
Member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are having to contend with this transition within the backdrop of an urgent need to secure reliable and economically viable sources of energy to drive development, economic growth, and prosperity for all within the region. fuel, contributing towards greenhouse gas emission reductions, while providing dispatchable power costeffectively and reliably to energy systems. Furthermore, natural gas can facilitate longer term industrialisation as a petrochemical feedstock, and as a reliable and cost-effective industrial heating source.
