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