An Assessment of New Coal Plants in South Africa’s Electricity Future

South Africa’s coal baseload independent power producer (IPP) procurement programme was launched in 2014, in line with the new coal capacity envisaged in the 2010 Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity (IRP 2010) (DoE, 2011). Since the release of the IRP 2010, however, there have been fundamental changes to the South African electricity sector.