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    Home»Sections»Energy»Powerful US investors visit SA with eye on renewables

    Powerful US investors visit SA with eye on renewables

    Energy By Monique Vanek4 August 2022
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    US investors with more than US$1-trillion of assets under management are in South Africa to look for investment opportunities.

    The visit being facilitated by USAid and Prosper Africa, the US government’s initiative to increase trade and investment between African nations and America, started on Tuesday and will coincide with US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s trip. Blinken arrives in the country on Sunday — his second official trip to Africa. He will also visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.

    South Africa, the world’s 13th largest source of greenhouse gases, will need to spend more than R4-trillion over the next three decades to fund the closing down of coal-fired plants and development of replacement green energy such as wind and solar, according to a report released in May. The world’s richest nations at Cop26 in Glasgow in November pledged just US$8.5-billion in climate grants and concessional loans to the nation.

    There’s going to need to be a scaling up of private capital alongside public capital in order to meet the challenge

    “There’s not enough public resources in donor budgets and in local budgets, for example, in South Africa to solve the climate crisis,” Cameron Khosrowshahi, senior investment adviser for Prosper Africa, said in an interview on Thursday. “There’s going to need to be a scaling up of private capital alongside public capital in order to meet the challenge. And that’s part of the reason why we’re here.”

    The delegation comprising pension funds, financial institutions and asset managers including Bank of New York Mellon, Kansas City Public School Retirement System and the NYC Board of Education Retirement System will meet with fund managers and discuss blended finance opportunities for South Africa’s transition to renewable energy and women’s economic empowerment, a statement from Prosper Africa and USAid said.

    The US is trying to deepen its ties with Africa and counter China’s influence, the continent’s largest trading partner and bilateral creditor.

    Blinken will be hosted by South Africa’s minister of international relations & cooperation, Naledi Pandor, and will also engage on a strategic dialogue.  — (c) 2022 Bloomberg LP

    Antony Blinken Prosper Africa USAid
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