Coal phase-out campaign the Life After Coal Campaign, in its comments on the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2023, said the plan has fundamental flaws and expressed skepticism in the plan’s ability to ensure cost-effective electricity supply, energy security and to uphold the Constitutional right to live in a healthy environment.

“The IRP 2023 does not, in real terms, commit to a least-cost pathway and instead opts for expensive technology and fuel choices. This will perpetuate energy poverty, and make essential services for poor communities even more unaffordable and impact on local economies,” said environmental justice organisation Earthlife Africa director Makoma Lekalakala.

The IRP 2023 is not aligned with a just transition, and takes us further into the direction of an exploitative, carbon-intensive economy and society,” she said.

The Life After Coal Campaign is a joint campaign by environmental justice organisations Earthlife Africa, groundWork, the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) and community gender justice organisation Black Girls Rising.

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