Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson is to be asked to extend the period for consultation on the draft integrated resource plan (IRP) and integrated energy plan, which critics say is too short. The deadline for consultations is end-February and the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce and Industry appealed for this to be extended at least to end-March to allow for comment on what it said on Tuesday were vital policy proposals. Department of Energy deputy director-general Ompi Aphane told a departmental engagement with stakeholders in Cape Town — the third leg of countrywide consultations after Johannesburg and Durban — that he would convey the request to the minister. He noted that the same sentiment had been expressed by stakeholders in the Johannesburg and Durban consultations. Aphane also addressed another criticised criticism, that the department had not produced any credible studies to support its claim that the South African grid was too constrained to accommodate much more renewab...
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