Transmission tower geometry from below, Karoo

Looking up into the steel lattice of a high-voltage transmission tower near Sutherland, green glass insulator strings threading the structure against a saturated Karoo sky. Grid infrastructure like this is the bottleneck - and the backbone - of South Africa's renewable build-out.

Sustainable Development Goals

7. Affordable and Clean Energy 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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