South Africa’s Eskom Holdings is looking for a manager to lead its clean energy projects even as the utility extends the use of coal plants to mitigate nationwide electricity shortages. The group executive will be “responsible for leading and overseeing the renewable energy initiatives within Eskom” as well as driving its Just Energy Transition Strategy to move away from coal, the company said in an advertisement in the Johannesburg-based Business Day newspaper. The person will act as the primary liaison for such projects and oversee their planning.
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"The government won t want to make a political crisis. Nobody is interested in that," said Peter Varga, a senior portfolio manager at Erste Asset Management GmbH. "It s cheaper to kick down the can on the road, so they ll always help a bit just to avoid default."