Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa held a special briefing to announce slamming the breaks on South Africa's plan to procure 2,500MW of nuclear power on ice.
The development follows court action to put the skids on the process due to the lack of public participationMinister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa held a special briefing on Friday to announce that the government's plan to procure 2,500 megawatts of nuclear energy was officially off the table.Ramokgopa, to address the oversight, said his department was withdrawing the gazette to allow for public participation.
"That the decision to withdraw the gazette. We allow for that process to unfold to ensure the process is clean." At the time, he said NERSA had outlined a rigorous set of suspensive conditions for the Mineral Resources and Energy Department to satisfy before a go-ahead.
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