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Imagine your electricity bill went up 459%

Mike Baillie by Mike Baillie 27 October 201118 June 2013

You’ll often hear that renewable energy is a nice idea, but it’s simply too expensive to be a realistic option. The choice between burning coal and switching to renewable energy is said to be a simple cost calculation — one that coal wins every time. It’s the rationale for why Eskom is going ahead with […]

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