Atomic Tina needs to clarfy three suggested nuke deals
The Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) 2015 presently before Cabinet indicates that government plans not one but up to three R1 trillion nuclear deals by 2050 all the while acknowledging that procurement of nuclear can in fact be delayed until at least 2020, if not later.
The DA therefore calls on Energy Minister Joemat-Petterson to table this IEP as a matter of urgency and allow Parliament to scrutinise this document and address the key issues within this plan.
According to reports in the Sunday Times this morning the proposed IEP nuclear-generating capacity will be expanded to between 12 and 20 times of South Africa’s current installed nuclear capacity of 1830 MW.
This effectively means that the Department of Energy (DoE) envisions a series of large-scale nuclear deals over the next 20 years, this despite ongoing and significant concerns on affordability by National Treasury and uncertainty as the impact on the cost of electricity for ordinary South Africans- particularly the poor.