Public hearings on energy mix begin with minister’s pronouncement hanging over them
Public hearings on the Integrated Resource Plan, which will determine SA’s future energy mix, began in Gauteng on Wednesday, despite a surprise pronouncement last week by Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson in which she named the energy scenario that she believed most likely to prevail. The Department of Energy two weeks ago published the "base case" of the IRP, which set out the energy mix, when these would be needed and the estimated costs. The base case suggested that new nuclear capacity would be required by 2037 and that by 2050, SA will need an additional 20GW of nuclear power, 5.5GW of wind and solar photo-voltaic energy, 40GW of gas and 15GW of coal generation.
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