Mineral Resources and Energy minister Gwede Mantashe will tender proposals to build new nuclear capacity in South Africa.
, Mantashe said that the exact builds and generation size had not been confirmed, but that his department would be pushing forward on the tenders as soon as possible.
The government has previously indicated that it plans to repurpose South Africa’s coal fleet towards nuclear energy as part of a move away from harmful fossil fuels over the next 30 years. “Seeing that no economy of the world can be powered wholly from renewables, there is room for co-existence of baseload energy sources such as nuclear and renewables in so-called hybrid energy systems wherein the baseload energy source would kick in to fill the demand/supply curve when intermittent renewables are not available.”
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