(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s cabinet approved an updated Integrated Resource Plan — a blueprint for the development of electricity provision over the next two-and-a-half decades.
The plan underpins how the government will address the nation’s energy crisis, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said in an online briefing Sunday. It will be released at an unspecified date by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy for public comment, he said.
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The so-called IRP has two time horizons — one through 2030 and the other from 2030 to 2050, Ramokgopa said.
The first timeframe will help the government ensure that “we are able to ameliorate the degree of the energy deficit that we are experiencing now,” and anticipates that the South African authorities will need to “rethink the schedule” for decommissioning power plants, he said.
South Africa’s governing African National Congress…