The government aims to release its official blueprint for how the country will produce electricity over the next decade at the end of September, News24 quoted electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa as saying on Saturday.
The Integrated Resource Plan 2023 will outline the state's plans for new power plants and how much electricity is expected to cost, it reported.
It also quoted Ramokgopa as saying he would account to the Western Cape legislature after snubbing the ad hoc committee on energy earlier this week.
“We are accounting on a daily basis. I am appointed on a national level; I account to the executive and to parliament. When I get invited to other legislatures, we go and account,” he said.
Meanwhile, eNCA reported Ramokgopa said the recent intensity of blackouts was due to ramped-up planned outages.
“These are not long-term outages. A lot of them are about three to five days to make sure that we fix the units so when they come back they're reliable and they perform at the right level.”
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