South African power plan points to need for massive plant build
SOUTH Africa needs a massive power plant construction programme to ensure adequate electricity supply up to 2050, a government planning document released for public comment showed. Africa's most industrialised economy has suffered power cuts for more than a decade which have held back growth, reaching record levels last year lasting up to 10 hours a day. The latest iteration of the government's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) analysed different options to close the power shortfall over the period up to 2030, and the period from 2031 to 2050. Up to 2030, the plan said the deployment of "dispatchable" power generation options…