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Opening the first Southern African Solar Energy Conference in Stellenbosch yesterday, she told delegates that the province aimed to draw at least a 10th of its power from renewable sources within two years.

"We intend by 2014 ... that at least 10% of electricity use in the province will be generated from renewable energy (sources)," Zille said.

The plentiful sunshine in the province means "we will see many solar energy power plants built in the Western Cape and an attendant manufacturing industry with upstream and downstream linkages".

Zille said by 2020 the energy system of the Western Cape would be highly efficient and (its) fossil fuel energy use greatly reduced.

She stressed the importance of partnerships with the private and academic sectors to achieve this. Migration into the region meant energy demand would rise sharply.

However, over time, economies of scale would see the use of such energy move from marginal to mainstream use.

Zille said there were plans to turn the West Coast industrial town of Atlantis into "the heart of green economy manufacturing".

This would contribute greatly to the creation of jobs and move the region closer to a carbon-free economy.

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May 22, 2012

Missynj

RE YA UTLWA, good for the province. Let me ask this question? How many cities dows the Western Cape have? One I believe. When is Madam Zille and the Western Cape DA gonna develop other towns around the Cape coast to become Cities as well? Knysna is beautiful, the escarpment and the landscape nature has done marvelous wonders there. Stellenbosch is still a town so as George. Those places can be turned into great cities if attention is also given to them rather than Cape Town only. If anything has been done in terms of the development in those town it must have been done in a slow pace then.
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May 25, 2012

PleaseGetReal1

Misssynj, why develop those areas as cities, they are so beautiful and desirable for holiday destinations because they are still towns. Cities intrude with the environment.

P.E can be developed more, Cape Town and P.E itself have all the infrastructure that is needed in an province, DA must just take P.E over to make it a more efficient and less corrupt area.
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