Energy from renewable sources will be anticipated to make up a considerable 42 percent of all new power generation in South Africa over the upcoming twenty years, following Cabinet endorsement of the nation's Integrated Resource Plan 2010. This is a drastic rise from the thirty percent of new generation allocated to renewable power under the draft IRP (Integrated Resource Plan) unconfined for civic comment past year.
Under the permitted IRP 2010, nuclear energy is anticipated to make up 23 percent of all new power generation, coal 15 percent, open-cycle gas turbines 9 percent, hydro power 6 percent, and imported gas 6 percent.
Addressing the media in Cape Town, Minister in the Presidency Responsible for Performance Evaluation and Monitoring, Collins Chabane, stated that the IRP 2010, which will now be propagated by the Department of Energy, will make a basis of South Africa's energy generation program for the upcoming twenty years.
"The IRP 2010 is allied to the goals set in the Long Term Mitigation Scenarios and the promises made to the weather change imperatives, particularly the Copenhagen Accord," Chabane said.