OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels: Country Notes
This new web format for Country Notes on Fossil Fuel Support provides interactive on-line access to the latest data from the OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels by country – identifying and estimating the value of support arising from policies that encourage the production or consumption of fossil fuels. The web version allows users to download, share and play with the data. Interactive graphics enable data visualisation, in national currency, by beneficiary and by energy product. These Country Notes provide, for each of the 50 economies covered in the Inventory, a snapshot of energy market structure, the current state of energy prices and taxes, and recent developments and trends in fossil fuel support. Data and country notes for the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries have been collected and prepared as part of the GREEN Action Task Force.
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South Africa
In 2018, South Africa was the eighth-biggest coal producer in the world and one third of the country’s coal was exported. Some 58% of South Africa’s coal total energy supply is used for electricity generation, meeting 89% of the sector’s fuel needs in 2017. Most of the remainder of the coal feeds Sasol’s synthetic liquid fuels plant, producing 27% of the country’s gasoline and diesel-fuel in 2014. Renewable energy generates approximately 4% of South Africa’s electricity, mostly from both wind and solar.
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