a) The Department is in the process of analysing the comments received from the public, once done the Department will also consult sister departments for comments and submit to Cabinet for processing. The updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) will then be submitted to Parliament for processing.
b) i) The next step is to analyse the public inputs, make adjustment to assumptions used where necessary, rerun the base case, run scenarios and come up with a balanced scenario (draft IRP) before policy adjustment. We anticipate having the plans to Cabinet by the fourth quarter of 2017/18 financial year.
c) Once Cabinet has processed the updated IRP &IEP,..
d) i) Once Cabinet approves the IRP it will be submitted to Parliament for processing
ii) See response to question (c)
(e) (i) See response to question (a)
(ii) See response to question (c)