South Sudan eyes crucial minerals for renewable power transition – Sudans Publish

JUBA – South Sudan is planning to faucet into its crucial mineral sources to gasoline a transition to renewable power, the nation mentioned on Wednesday.

The nation goals to leverage geothermal, wind, and hydro energy to cut back reliance on fossil fuels and decrease carbon emissions.

This initiative, outlined in a strategic power transition blueprint, is designed to revolutionize South Sudan’s power sector.

The second validation assembly for the Improvement of an Vitality Transition Technique, which kicked off on Wednesday, introduced collectively authorities officers, specialists, and stakeholders to debate the plan.

Dr. Cosmas Pitia Kujjo, Undersecretary on the Ministry of Mining, emphasised the significance of power for sustainable growth and highlighted the challenges confronted by industries attributable to energy shortages.

He burdened the federal government’s dedication to exploring renewable power sources, together with hydropower, photo voltaic, and wind energy.

“Vitality is the one of the vital essential necessities or pillars of sustainable growth. We can’t have an actual sustainable growth with out power and that’s why we’re in want of. The federal government is placing that precedence so as to extract our minerals,” he mentioned.

“For example, in infrastructure – we want cement, we want iron all that can’t be achieved with out energy for power. We have to plan for the long run, how will you be doing transition from no matter gasoline we now have into renewable (power).

“The deliberation of all this will likely be led to the fruitful consequence and I’m actually optimistic and that may lead us into goal we plan for,” he added.

Victoria R. Nalule, CEO of Nalule Vitality & Minerals Consultants, famous that the strategic power transition blueprint supplies a roadmap for South Sudan to make the most of its oil and gasoline sources whereas transitioning to renewable power at its personal tempo.

“On this doc, we’re making a pathway on how South Sudan can be capable of make the most of its oil and gasoline and on the identical time be capable of faucet its different sources like renewable power which may be very eager,” mentioned Ms. Nalule.

“This doc creates a pathway of how South Sudan can obtain that however by itself tempo with out being pressured by the worldwide group,” she added.

She additionally highlighted the challenges confronted by small-scale miners, comparable to a scarcity of protecting gear.

David Thiang, a microeconomist and African Improvement Financial institution guide, urged the Ministry of Mining to implement the suggestions and resolutions of the strategic plan.