Energy and Electricity Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré says the country’s energy blueprint is outdated and an update or review is years overdue.
She said the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) of 2019 requires urgent reviewing as it doesn’t allow for new technology in the energy generation space.
Graham-Maré and the department were briefing Parliament’s Energy and Electricity portfolio committee on the country’s energy policies.
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.
On the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), Graham said the blueprint for energy generation was outdated and has since been returned to the department.
“We found that the modeling on the IRP was outdated. It doesn’t make allowance for new technologies particularly,” said Graham-Maré.
She said the IRP also had major flaws that will hopefully be resolved when affected parties come together.
“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-Maré.
The department said they are at a stage where they’ve just finalized the analysis of the submissions – and that Cabinet will only approve the revised policy at that point.
-EWN
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