![]() ![]() His commentary seems out of step with the agreed July 2022 National Energy Action Plan and its five policy priorities: fixing electricity availability accelerating private investment in generation and the procurement of renewables and battery storage facilitating household and business rooftop solar, and “fundamentally transform the electricity sector to achieve long-term energy security”. ![]() You are plunging the country into the dark… How do you decommission in the middle of a crisis?” Energy backtrack? Later, he added: “You can’t be looking for additional megawatts when you are planning to take out megawatts. ![]() “The preoccupation can’t be about the Eskom balance sheet - it must be about the cost to the economy…” Ramokgopa said repeatedly, even as he acknowledged that money was the domain of National Treasury. Such governance hara-kiri is underscored in the political noise and hype for shortcuts like reversing the agreed timetable on decommissioning ageing coal power plants that Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa flighted in a televised briefing on 6 April. ![]()
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