In South Africa, local communities own equity through "community trusts" - so not direct payments, but community governance of expenditure. see inspire-excellence.net/about-us/ for more. Ireland also has a payment scheme, as does Aust

thanks so much :D this is a big issue here in SA as we finalise our 2025 IRP, with much turning on cost assumptions for SMRs

please can you share the source? gracias!

interesting, what is the absolute reduction in TWh in coal/year? interesting to have real world comparators for countries such as South Africa

i enjoyed this but i take umbrage with the ahistorical starting point that says "traditional defenders of a rules-based world order such as the United States". The lawless-based order might be a better phrase to capture the behaviours of the "rules-based" order, see www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

These toxic assets get spun out - eg into pure play coal companies as with Anglo's coal assets in South Africa. Result - locked in companies with their backs against the wall & a dependence on fossils. I'd prefer "responsible closure" by those firms with the means to do it properly, not divestment.

please do! or build on stephen's? bsky is heavily skewed to the US and Europe. i miss my old global south twitter

similarly, do communities in towns where steel manufacturing is a large employer agree that green hydrogen is not an important option for their sector? GH2 has domestic positives for heavy industry & jobs, but is expensive. Sometimes we need to take a bigger view than only local issues on transition

I wonder if local communities and workers in areas that depend on automotive manufacturing would agree with this view? The reason automotives is in there is because it employs many people, and municipalities in the eastern cape are dependent on those jobs and activities too.

ah thank you! 😄

She's not on Bsky but Holle Wlokas (and organisation called Inspire), based in South Africa have worked extensively on community ownership structures for RE under South Africa's auction programme (lots of lessons on how not to do things...), also some work looking at lessons from mining trusts in SA

oxbridge is the world

pretty clear why they want all the attention on Al-Jaber