Ramaphosa’s energy plan is straight out of the DA playbook - DA to launch implementation tracker to keep track of project deliverables
25 July 2022
Note to Editors: Please find attached soundbites in English and Afrikaans by Kevin Mileham MP and soundbite in English by Ghaleb Cachalia MP.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s five point energy plan, which is centered on leveraging on Eskom’s installed generation capacity to fill the short term electricity supply gap and opening up the electricity sector to Independent Power Producers (IPPs), is straight out of the DA playbook.
While the DA welcomes the steps taken by the President to address the energy crisis, we still find it unacceptable that it took this long to take action. The DA has, for years and as recently as May, consistently called for the opening up of the grid to IPPs through red tape reduction and increased private sector investment in the electricity sector.
Now that an energy plan to address the electricity crisis has been announced, the DA will soon be launching an Energy Plan Implementation Tracker to keep Ramaphosa’s government honest on project implementation and red tape reduction milestones. The tracker will particularly hold the President accountable on the commitments made to add new generation capacity.