Maynier urges urgent Gazetting of determination for new power projects

The Western Cape government has urged Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe to urgently Gazette the final Section 34 Ministerial Determination that would open the way for the procurement of 11 813 MW of new electricity capacity. On Thursday, Mantashe announced that the National Energy Regulator of South Africa had provided its concurrence to a determination, delivered to it in February, that seeks to implement the technology allocations included in the Integrated Resource Plan of 2019.