JOHANNESBURG - The Green Energy Africa Summit is calling on clean-tech startups to be part of this year's Energy Investment Village.
It's looking to empower up and coming companies to fast-track energy independence.
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Freeport Saldanha CEO Kaashifah Beukes says these businesses can help achieve the just energy transition.
Beukes said, "we have an immense infrastructure in South Africa, in our energy and in our electricity network. This is a transition and no country will be able to move over night and if you look at the mix of energy demand just from the industrial perspective, we know that heavy industries still require the element of gas as a fuel in the industrial process to balance out other lower carbon fuel that they use."
"And this is because of the industrial process that takes place there and the efficiences that can be gained by that."
"We have diverse mix of project developing in Saldanha and certainly all over the country and the economic special zones and it is very important that we support these projects and push out the competitive advantage and an enabling environment that they would require to realise them."