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Original Post Date: 2010-06-08 Time: 10:00:03 Posted By: News Poster
By Siseko Njobeni
Johannesburg – DEPARTMENT of Energy director-general Nelisiwe Magubane yesterday leapt to the defence of Eskom’s role in the development of SA’s long-term energy plan, amid concern that the utility would be a dominant participant in the drafting of SA’s integrated resource plan.
Ms Magubane’s comments were an attempt to counter criticism that Eskom’s involvement in the plan’s development gave the utility an advantage over other producers.
“Eskom is a state-owned utility owned 100% by the government of the Republic of SA. It is not an alien institution that should (not) and must not be involved in determining our future electricity requirements.
“It controls more than 90% of our electricity generation, owns the entire transmission network as well as a large part of our distribution network,” Ms Magubane said on the first day of the plenary session of the development process of the plan in Pretoria yesterday.
The plan, also known as the IRP2010, will spell out the energy mix that SA would implement in the next 20 years.
According to the energy department, the plan will identify investments in the electricity sector that will allow SA to meet its forecast electricity demand.
Ms Magubane said historically Eskom carried the “mantle” of being the “supplier of last resort” and was responsible for security of electricity supply.
“Eskom was therefore responsible, in terms of this arrangement, for determining the extent and nature of the new-generation capacity that was required for our country at the time,” she said.
In terms of new-generation capacity regulations, the systems operator – now located at Eskom – was central in the development of the electricity plan, she said.
With about 40000MW of new capacity required in the next 20 years, the integrated resource plan process could create another Eskom, she said.
Ompi Aphane, the department’s acting deputy director-general for electricity, nuclear and clean energy, said key variables in the development of the plan included projected prices of fuel sources such as crude oil, coal and gas, the existing electricity generation mix, investment criteria and projected demand.
He said one of the questions that had to be answered as the plan was developed was “the critically important issue of climate change and the need to reduce SA’s carbon footprint. We will do this guided by our very own long-term mitigation scenarios.”
Mr Aphane said the closing date for the first round of public input on the plan was Friday.
By the middle of next month the department would issue the first draft of the plan and this would be followed by expected Cabinet approval to gazette the plan for public participation.
He said the plan would be promulgated in September.
Meanwhile, Mark Pickering of Meridian Economics yesterday said SA should consider establishing a transmission system operator.
Based on international experience, it was advisable to have an independent transmission operator when one entity owned the entire transmission system, he said.
“Grid access can be a big issue,” Mr Pickering said.
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Original date published: 8 June 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201006080511.html?viewall=1