{"id":378831,"date":"2020-03-03T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=378831"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:09:31","slug":"governments-alternative-power-plans-could-still-be-half-a-year-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/378831\/governments-alternative-power-plans-could-still-be-half-a-year-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s alternative power plans could still be half a year away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s plans to procure more electricity-generation capacity will have to wait as long as six months until the regulator has approved a state resource strategy, the nation\u2019s energy department said.<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s most-industrialized economy has been hobbled by a shortage of electricity from debt-stricken state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>A government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-10-18\/solar-wind-find-favor-in-south-africa-s-new-energy-blueprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blueprint<\/a>\u00a0published last year set out plans to increase power output over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has submitted the so-called Integrated Resource Plan to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa for its consideration.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the plan is processed by the regulator, procurement of new capacity can begin, Department of Mineral Resources and Energy Deputy Director-General Jacob Mbele said at a conference in Cape Town on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be anywhere between three to six months,\u201d he said when asked to estimate the timeline. A spokesman for Nersa didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Independent Power Producers office has started preparing a procurement process for when the IRP is processed, according to Maduna Ngobeni, a representative of the office.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/378541\/plan-to-use-pensions-to-help-save-eskom-will-be-ready-in-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan to use pensions to help save Eskom will be ready in weeks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s plans to procure more electricity-generation capacity will have to wait as long as six months until the regulator has approved a state resource strategy, the nation\u2019s energy department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-378831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378837,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378831\/revisions\/378837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}