Feedback on Draft Integrated Resource Plan for South Africa
Feedback on Draft Integrated Resource Plan for South Africa
In August 2018 South Africa’s Department of Energy issued a revised draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for comment. My overall impression is that the model used is too simplistic and does not consider a number of important factors including:
In August 2018 South Africa’s Department of Energy issued a revised draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for comment. My overall impression is that the model used is too simplistic and does not consider a number of important factors including:
- the October 2018 report of the IPCC stressing that all countries need to take urgent and appropriate action to limit global warming to below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
- only large scale wind and solar projects are considered; there is no mention of batteries or of small scale solar
- the IRP underplays the impact of coal fired generation on health and mortality
- although it is styled an “integrated” resource plan, it does not consider the changing energy needs of the transport industry and the potential impact of the advent of electric vehicles
- the IRP does not consider how low cost renewable energy could help address South Africa’s major socio-economic challenges of poverty, inequality, unemployment and gaining a competitive advantage in the global economy

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