Socio-economic implications of mitigation in the power sector including carbon taxes in South Africa
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2014
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Energy Research Centre
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Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town.
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The structure of this paper is as follows. The first section provides a discussion of recent developments within South Africa aimed at increasing the contribution of renewable energy. The second section gives a brief description of the carbon tax that National Treasury plans to implement and also provides an overview of previous studies on the implications of a carbon tax in South Africa. The linked model that we use for our analysis is described in section 3. This is then followed in section 4 by a description of the scenarios that we modelled, with results presented in section 5. The last section presents the conclusions and recommendations for further research.
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Merven, B., Moyo, A., Stone, A., Dane, A. & Winkler, H. (2014). Socio-economic implications of mitigation in the power sector including carbon taxes in South Africa. Working paper for CDKN project on linking sectoral and economy-wide models. Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.