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RENEWABLE ENERGY: MASTER PLAN FINALLY PUBLISHED
- 15 April 2025
- Minerals & Energy
- SA Legal Academy
A renewable energy master plan approved by Cabinet on 26 March 2024 has been unceremoniously published. This comes nearly three weeks after the release of a Department of Mineral Resources & Energy media statement welcoming Cabinet’s decision on behalf of Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.
The new plan has not yet been posted on the Department of Mineral Resources & Energy website, so – in the absence of an accompanying departmental press release – it may need to be verified as the final version. This is bearing in mind that the version made available on 15 April 2025 by Polity was finalised in December 2023.
Against that backdrop, according to a press release on the Cabinet meeting at which the plan was approved, it:
- ‘seeks to leverage the rising demand for renewable energy and storage technologies to promote industrialisation and localisation’, and
- focuses on:
- solar and wind energy, and
- lithium-ion, battery and vanadium-based battery storage technologies, and
- ‘is designed to be a living document’
This is noting that Cabinet has ‘directed that additional work be done on the master plan’ to:
- ‘incentivise investors to fund renewable energy supplier development’, and
- ‘include the development of green hydrogen fuel in order to meet the international obligation of 5% blended fuel in aviation and maritime sectors by 2030’.
The departmental media statement quotes Minister Ramokgopa as having acknowledged the ‘pivotal role’ played by Government of National Unity Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré in ‘driving’ the plan’s adoption.
- master plan (finalised in December 2023)
- Polity article with an embedded link to the plan
- department’s 28 March 2025 media statement
- Cabinet 26 March 2025 media statement
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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