South Africa’s Komati Energy Station — a 63-year-old plant nestled within the nation’s coal belt — gives a cautionary story of how the “simply power transition” can go badly awry in growing nations. It is a lesson that Dan Marokane, the chief government of South Africa’s energy utility Eskom, believes should be absorbed by different growing nations planning their very own transition in direction of renewable energy. In October 2022, South Africa’s authorities shut down Komati, which at its peak was twice the scale of another within the nation, with a capability of 1,000 megawatts of electrical energy. The choice was in keeping with its Simply Vitality Transition Funding Plan. The city had been fully constructed across the plant, which supplied jobs to an estimated two-thirds of the residents at one level. But when Komati was “repurposed”, many had been left with out work in a rustic the place unemployment is already 32.9 per cent.