Ramokgopa wants less red tape to get renewable energy onto the electricity grid faster

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.skom has asked the department of forestry, fisheries and the environment to reduce red tape in approving environmental impact assessments to increase electricity generation from renewable energy, said Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.

“What we have done is to create a single window of entry, what we refer to as a one-stop shop, so that project developers don’t necessarily have that onerous responsibility of going to multiple departments. They simply go onto this platform and they are able to make these applications.” Ramokgopa said the delay was undermining investor confidence in the renewable projects. “One of the issues raised, among others, was the slow nature of the approval process in relation to the environmental assessment process and from an investor community point of view, that can undermine the commercial proposition they are putting across because time is money.”

“Among them are Tutuka, Kendal, Kusile. Essentially, over a period of time they come across as being problematic and therefore they require added attention,” he said.

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