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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Energy and Electricity Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Mare\u0301 says the country’s energy blueprint is outdated and an update or review is years overdue.<\/p>\n

She said the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) of 2019 requires urgent reviewing as it doesn\u2019t allow for new technology in the energy generation space.<\/p>\n

Graham-Mare\u0301 and the department were briefing Parliament\u2019s Energy and Electricity portfolio committee on the country’s energy policies.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Department of Energy and Electricity presented the integrated resource plan and the IEP that set off the country’s energy agenda to Parliament.<\/p>\n

On the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), Graham said the blueprint for energy generation was outdated and has since been returned to the department.<\/p>\n

READ: Draft plan on increasing electricity generation capacity out for public comment<\/b><\/p>\n

“We found that the modelling on the IRP was outdated. It doesn’t make allowance for new technologies particularly,” said Graham-Mare\u0301.<\/p>\n

She said the IRP also had major flaws that will hopefully be resolved when affected parties come together.<\/p>\n

“The IRP is very much overdue and then came out and we established there were major flaws with it and that was evidenced in the number of submissions made,” Graham-Mare\u0301.<\/p>\n

The department said they are at a stage where they\u2019ve just finalised the analysis of the submissions – and that Cabinet will only approve the revised policy at that point.<\/p>\n

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