THE UPDATED INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN FOR ELECTRICITY (IRP) AND INTEGRATED ENERGY PLAN (IEP)

A letter from the Life After Coal/Impilo Ngaphandle Kwamalahle Campaign to South Africa's Minister of Energy, Jeff Radebe, expressing concerns over the lack of public consultation regarding the updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for electricity and the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP).

• The Life After Coal Campaign and Greenpeace Africa argue that the public has not been adequately consulted on the content or process of the updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), noting that the only previous opportunity for input was on the base case and assumptions in 2016 and 2017.
• The campaign outlines eleven minimum requirements for a revised IRP, including that it must be based on the latest scientific information on climate change to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius and must align with South Africa's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.
• The campaign asserts that the IRP should prioritize the least cost combination of technologies for the Base Case scenario and must account for external costs to human health, the environment, and the climate, as well as the financial risks of stranded assets from fossil fuels and nuclear power.
• According to statements by Director-General Thabane Zulu, the coal and gas independent power producer (IPP) programmes were paused to ensure alignment with the updated IRP, though they have not been abandoned and will resume once policy certainty is achieved.

APA

Centre for Environmental Rights (2018). THE UPDATED INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN FOR ELECTRICITY (IRP) AND INTEGRATED ENERGY PLAN (IEP). https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LAC-and-GP-letter-to-Minister-Radebe-on-IRP_16-April-2018.DOCX.pdf?x21779

Chicago

Centre for Environmental Rights. THE UPDATED INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN FOR ELECTRICITY (IRP) AND INTEGRATED ENERGY PLAN (IEP). 2018. https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LAC-and-GP-letter-to-Minister-Radebe-on-IRP_16-April-2018.DOCX.pdf?x21779.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{centreforenvironmentalrights2018updated, author = {{Centre for Environmental Rights}}, title = {{THE UPDATED INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN FOR ELECTRICITY (IRP) AND INTEGRATED ENERGY PLAN (IEP)}}, publisher = {Centre for Environmental Rights}, year = {2018}, month = apr, url = {https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LAC-and-GP-letter-to-Minister-Radebe-on-IRP_16-April-2018.DOCX.pdf?x21779}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }