DoE Strategic Plan 2015-2020

On 10 May 2009, President Jacob Zuma announced his new Cabinet and the
appointment of, among others, the Minister of Energy. The Department of Energy (DoE) was consequently established. The DoE is mandated to ensure secure and sustainable provision of energy for socio-economic development. This is achieved by developing an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for the entire energy sector and promoting investment in accordance with the IRP which focuses on energy. The DoE envisions the pursuance of the aforementioned mandate through the following strategic statements.
AIM: Formulate energy policies, regulatory frameworks and legislation, and oversee their implementation to ensure energy security, promotion of environmentally-friendly energy carriers and access to affordable and reliable energy for all South Africans.
VISION 2025: Improving our energy mix by having 30% clean energy by 2025. The vision of the DoE will be realised by the following factors as depicted in the figure below.

Over the past 20 years, South Africa has not made significant investments in the energy sector. The capacity that was created in the 1980s was sufficient to carry us
through to the early 2000s, when it became clear that the demand growth, fuelled by the commodity boom, outpaced power supply and that there was an urgent need to increase supply. External constraints in the global supply chains for power generation technology, particularly for nuclear plants, underscored the importance of improving energy security by way of a timely and sustainable build programme. Most countries faced the same problem of declining generation capacity around the same time as South Africa, which resulted in global supply chains becoming constrained as competition increased for machinery and services.