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Grand Inga Project: Department of Energy update
15 Mar 2016
The Committee was given insight into the tenets of the Grand Inga Treaty between South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).The purpose of the Treaty was to develop an enabling framework linking the DRC and SA into the project, allowing for the two countries to jointly explore economically ...
Energy
National Energy Regulator of SA on its decision on Eskom’s Regulatory Clearing Account application for 1st year of 3rd Multi-Year Price Determination
8 Mar 2016
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) highlighted the important issues regarding its decision on Eskom’s Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) application for the 2013/2014 financial year, explaining the conditions of RCA applications and the reason for multi-year price determinations (MYPDs). It illustrated the MYPD process – Eskom’s applications and ...
Energy
Minister of Energy on impact of 2016 State of Nation Address on the Energy mandate
23 Feb 2016
The Minister of Energy made it very clear that the R1 trillion figure being speculated in the media as the cost of the nuclear energy programme proposed by government, was not a figure derived from her office and she emphasised that the government had not signed a nuclear deal with ...
Energy
Committee Oversight Reports
27 Oct 2015
Documents handed out
Committee Oversight visit on Gauteng and North West Province
Committee Oversight visit on Free State Province
Committee Oversight visit on Eskom Koeberg Nuclear Power Station
[All Reports available once published on ATC]
The Portfolio Committee on Energy met to consider and adopt outstanding oversight reports. All ...
Energy
Energy Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Portfolio Committee on considered the Committee’s draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR), with the Minister of Energy, Ms Tina Joemat-Pettersson in attendance.
Some recommendations discussed by Members were: fragmentation of the energy sector and the fact that regulation on petroleum (Minerals ...
Energy
Central Energy Fund (PetroSA; AEMFC; SFF, iGas, PASA) on their 2014/15 Annual Report; NECSA appearance
15 Oct 2015
The Central Energy Fund (CEF) Group briefing on its 2014/15Annual Report gave some context into the Group’s strategic challenges that threatened the long term sustainability of the company and it also provide insight into the decisions taken to address these challenges, with a strong focus on PetroSA.
Some of the ...
Energy
Department of Energy on its 2014/15 Annual Report
14 Oct 2015
The Department of Energy (DoE) said that the year 2014/15 has been beset with a number of challenges for energy supply, especially around electricity, challenges which have unfortunately had a negative impact on the country’s economic development. The DoE's response to electricity challenges included the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) which ...
Energy
Department of Energy 2014/15 performance: Auditor-General & Department of Performance Monitoring & Evaluation briefings
13 Oct 2015
The Auditor General of South Africa indicated that for the 2014/15 financial year the DoE, the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR), National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) received an unqualified audit with no findings. The Central Energy Fund (CEF), Equalisation Fund (EQF) and Sanedi received unqualified outcomes with findings. South ...
Energy
Nuclear international agreements: briefing by Minister of Energy
1 Sep 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Energy received a briefing from the Minister and Department of Energy (DoE) on the five international nuclear agreements for the new nuclear build programme. The agreements were referred to the Committee by the Speaker of Parliament on the 5 August 2015. The presentation gave an overview ...
Small Business Development
Committee minutes: adoption
18 Aug 2015
The Committee went over the backlog of minutes that needed to be adopted from the last three months of Committee meetings. This backlog was due to the large number of lengthy presentations to the Committee in this time. The Committee also discussed its approach to editing and adopting minutes in ...