NUCLEAR ENERGY: NEW GENERATION CAPACITY DETERMINATION GAZETTED

Please note: 1) On 16 August 2024, the Minister issued a media statement withdrawing the determination; 2) on 6 September, the determination was withdawn by notice in the Government Gazette.

Electricity Minister Kgosientso Ramokgopa has gazetted a notice announcing the imminent commencement of the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan’s new nuclear energy generation capacity procurement process.

Among other things, the notice confirms that the procurement of 2 500 MW of new nuclear energy capacity ‘will be established through a tendering procedure … (that) is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective’.

This is noting that the electricity generated will be purchased by Eskom or ‘any entity’ determined through its unbundling.

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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