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Though the new draft Integrated Resources Plan makes provision for nuclear energy, the department doesn’t expect a power station to be built for at least another decade.
Net Zero: It’s a goal that much of the world has signed up for — balancing removing emissions with hard-to-abate emissions by the year 2050.
South Africa will probably fail to achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2050 as outlined in the latest Integrated Resource Plan, Business Day newspaper reports citing an energy specialist in the department of mineral resources and energy.
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy said that this was the reason several of the plans in response to the 2019 IRP had not materialised.
The newly released Integrated Resource Plan has scaled back on renewables, pumped up gas and is delaying the shutdown schedule of old coal plants, with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy saying the cost of pollution is far less than the cost of energy shortages.