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In August 2018, the Department of Energy released a draft of South Africa's updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), the plan which seeks to meet the country's energy consumption demands, for public comment. The current plan dropped proposals for expansion of the number of nuclear plants in the
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country, focusing instead on expanding the production of renewable energy and creating two new coal power plants.
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was appointed. This only lasted 7 months before the next reshuffle and the appointment of
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from 2009 to 2014. After Tine Joemat-Petterson was asked to leave,
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as Minister as part of his cabinet reshuffle on 26 January 2018.
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7,545 million and a staff complement of 622 civil servants.
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In the 2016/2017 budget the department had a budget of
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Afrikaans
Southern Ndebele
Xhosa
Zulu
Swazi
Northern Sotho
Sotho
Tswana
Tsonga
Venda
Department of Minerals and Energy
Government of South Africa
Pretoria
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Mr Gwede Mantashe
Minister of Energy
National Energy Regulator of South Africa
National Nuclear Regulator
Central Energy Fund
South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
Electricity Distribution Industry Holdings
www.energy.gov.za
department
South African government
energy policy
Department of Minerals and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources
Minister of Energy
Barbara Thompson

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