Essay On Energy Crisis

Our energy crisis are getting worse, if we do not do anything about it sooner in the few years to come we might have massive energy crisis that we will not be able to come up with solutions for as the whole country.

The energy crisis in South Africa is already bad enough and it might get worse. With this issue at hand people are not able to continue with their work, daily chores. The provinces with the most businesses are the ones suffering the most from this crisis as they have to use energy in order to create product which we use often. The focus of the issue got extreme when the country leaders realised that without electricity our economy will drop even more as school children need the light to study at night, the factories and industries need energy for their production.

Trying the other ways of producing energy might help reduce our

It has minimal carbon dioxide emissions. It is reliable, effective and efficient. It is not affected by fuel prices fluctuations like oil.

Gas 2% Is depends on the import means increasing vulnerability to the rising prices and instability in the gas producing regions. It is cleaner than coal and reliable.

Hydro 1% The natural flow relies on the rainfall and it is vulnerable to drought, pump storage hydro’s rely on off-peak electricity to pump water back uphill It has no Carbon dioxide emissions; it is not vulnerable to the fuel prices fluctuations and once the dam has been constructed it is inexpensive.

Oil 10% It has price instabilities; it depends on the politically unstable regions and it is inefficient generation. It is a well established energy source and it is reliable.

Coal 78% It has high emissions of Carbon dioxide and Sulphur dioxide which causes damage to the environment. It is cheap and reliable; the country has large coal deposits to sustain the whole country’s growing energy needs so