Eskom should be procurer for nuclear build scheme, Department of Energy says
The Department of Energy is to propose to the Cabinet that Eskom be the designated procurer for the new nuclear build programme.The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation will be proposed as the procurer for the fuel cycle and multipurpose reactor for the programme, officials told Parliament’s energy portfolio committee on Tuesday.The Cabinet will be asked to designate the department as the programme co-ordinator.All three entities would jointly develop a governance framework for the procurement and implementation of the programme.The committee was told that Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson would amend the determination under the Electricity Regulation Act, to seek concurrence with the National Energy Regulator of SA.Committee chairperson Fikile Majola informed members that he had received two boxes of documents on the nuclear programme — previously refused on the basis of confidentiality — from the department. The committee will have to decide how to deal with them.The docu...
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