Integrated Resource Plan
Tina Joemat-Pettersson to present IRP to the Cabinet next week
Some deadlines will be changed
ENERGY Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Monday that she would present the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and an integrated energy plan to a Cabinet subcommittee on Wednesday and to the Cabinet next week. Wide consultations, including with Eskom, had been taken on both plans, she said. The plans will reflect the government’s commitment to an energy mix that included nuclear energy, and will lay the foundation for the government’s future energy procurement. They would not necessarily be approved by the Cabinet but would be released for public comment, Joemat-Pettersson said. The minister reaffirmed the government’s unequivocal commitment to the renewable energy programme, but said some deadlines would be changed due to a change in circumstances. All determinations issued in the past would go ahead, Joemat-Pettersson said at a media briefing to announce the preferred bidders for the first stage of the government’s coal-based independent power producer procurement programme (IPPP...
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