South Africa: CSIR Study Blows a Hole in Eskom and Department of Energy's Nuclear Plans

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The DA will today write to the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Energy, Mr Fikile Majola, to request that Eskom and the Department of Energy (DOE) be summoned to Parliament to respond to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) study presented at the committee meeting today.

The CSIR presented their least cost energy scenario models to the Committee and revealed that the total cost of power generation for the DOE's draft IRP 2016 base case will be R86 billion per year, which is more expensive than the least cost scenario from the CSIR least cost model by 2050, excluding the cost of CO2.

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