BLSA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso in her weekly newsletter called for a closer working relationship between business and government.
This followed a meeting with the minister of electricity, Kgosientso Ramakgopa last week. His message was that business has to play a critical role in resolving the electricity crisis, she said.
The minister of electricity is clear that we do not need new plans to address the energy crisis – we just need to implement the existing ones and organised business is a willing partner. BLSA is positive that the NECOM plan is a good one – it reflects the best options we have as a country to end the loadshedding crisis as soon as possible. BLSA will continue working to support that progress.
She said organised business is a willing partner. “Last week we demonstrated that with the launch of the Resource Mobilisation Fund. BLSA is a significant contributor to the R100m fund which will pay for technical capacity to support the President’s energy plan drawn up by the National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM). She added.
According to Mavuso NECOM’s plan is already being implemented, having driven the issuance of a battery procurement round and the lifting of the licensing threshold for private generation, among other steps.
