Included among the many scenarios for SA’s future energy mix proposed in the draft integrated resources plan 2023 is a delay in decommissioning coal-fired power stations.
With nuclear energy as the anchor of the country’s green energy strategy we may begin to live in a post-baseload reality, which enables the state to invest and build mental infrastructures such as new universities, TVET colleges and other essential infrastructure which allow our society to develop in a harmonious and progressive manner.
Mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe said the Integrated Resource Plan 2019 (IRP 2019), SA’s energy mix blueprint, had been largely implemented and would be revised to take account of the future beyond 2030.
There are no certainties. No matter how hard you try, unless you accept what is in front of you for what it is, you’re in trouble. I’ve been trying to reconcile the multitude of voices jostling to solve our country’s deepest problem, poverty.