Deputy Speaker, I want to assure the hon member that she is correct that by 2010 we have reached about 4%. I just want to indicate that the 29 September call for Request for Information, RFI, by the Department of Energy and National Energy Regulator of South Africa, Nersa, was actually a way of making sure that we accelerate the participation of Independent Power Producers, IPPs, in this particular programme so as to be able to make sure that we reach the target.
By 2013 we should have reached the 10 000 gigawatt hours. You will realise that it is central to the IRP 1, which is the document that we promulgated in December, so as to be able to say how far we should be by 2013. It is still located within 2013.
The ruling party emphasises an energy mix. I want to say that the Integrated Resource Plan brings everything together that makes it possible for us to generate power. We say, from waste to nuclear. That is why we are talking about everything that is usable. To generate power we will be able to utilise that. That is why I specifically raised earlier on the indicators that include using waste to generate power.
Together with Environmental Affairs we are looking at making sure that we can separate waste from source. In that way, whatever is not reusable or recyclable can go into power generation because it would be useless material that can be burnt and combusted in order to generate power.
I want to reassure you that the anchor of our IRP is going to be the importation of clean energy sources, especially hydro from our neighbours through the Southern African power pull, but also gas. We believe that we are going to be able to do that. There are already projects in the region of the Southern African Development Community, SADC, that would make it possible for us to achieve the targets that we set for ourselves in the IRP 2010.
I also want to say that Cabinet took a decision to pursue the Wesco initiatives, which have the potential to generate more than 100 000 megawatt from the hydro schemes in the Great Lakes. Working together with Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, we were looking at hydro schemes within or on the Orange River so as to be able to utilise the power of water to generate power.
We are doing everything in our power to assure South Africans that the lights will be on and that industries and machineries will continue running. That is why we say that the IRP is a response to IPP2 and a response to the new growth path. Thank you very much.