Business Leadership SA found it is disconcerting to see electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa deviate from the Necom plan to deal with the country’s electricity crisis in his presentation to Cabinet last week. 💡Eskom TheCitizenNews
Business Leadership SA found it disconcerting to see electricity minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, deviate from the Necom plan to deal with the country’s electricity crisis in his presentation to Cabinet last week. The National Energy Crisis Committee , set up under the presidency, brought together the best people and put together a plan with the best chance of resolving the crisis the fastest.
“Our greatest economic challenge is the electricity crisis. And we have a plan to deal with it. Without a plan we risk failing to achieve what we want simply because we are uncoordinated and have not properly understood how actions lead to the outcomes we desire,” Busi Mavuso, CEO of Business Leadership SA , writes in her latest newsletter.
“We welcomed the new electricity minister and his promise to not be a creator of new policy, but an implementer of the existing Necom plan. But I did not feel that commitment was in place last week when his Cabinet proposal was made.”Major deviation from Necom plan “Such plans must be considered carefully. They require huge amounts of investment, can only affect electricity availability several years ahead of us and may well face operating costs that are higher than the costs of alternative sources of new electricity.”should not be part of the electricity solution.
“The IRP is the single document that sets out a course for the future of electricity supply. It carefully assesses the different options and charts a course that delivers reliable energy at the least cost.”What we need is a new IRP
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