Publication date: 2015
Author: DoE
Description: After 1994 and through the Government’s initiative of RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme) the electrification programme was endorsed. In the period 1991 – 2001 electrification was an electricity industry funded programme. During 2001 Government took responsibility for funding and managing the electrification programme, via funds made available from National Treasury – as a result of the White Paper on Energy Policy (1998). Resulted in the establishment of Integrated National Electrification Planning (INEP) unit within the Department of Energy.
