Uncertainty surrounds Mmamabula's future

The draft Integrated Resource Plan 2010 (IRP 2010) - which determines South Africa's long-term electricity demand, how this should be met in terms of capacity, type, timing and cost - only envisages fossil fuel imports into South Africa in no less than 12 years.

The various scenarios proposed by the draft are widely interpreted to ring the death knell for the 1, 200 MW project, whose viability is based on Eskom offtake, which in turn is based on the IRP 2010 providing for such off-take.