A presentation by the country’s energy crisis committee showed that South Africa is developing new legislation to speed up energy projects to add generating capacity and help end power cuts.

According to a presentation seen by Reuters on Tuesday from the National Energy Crisis Committee, set up by the President, work is in motion to accelerate the procurement of additional capacity.

It said, “the committee is working to develop emergency legislation which can be tabled in parliament to allow energy projects to proceed more quickly and enable coordinated and decisive action”. It also added that, “a web of bureaucracy was making it difficult to deal with the power crisis and that the current regulatory framework was not designed to deal with an energy shortfall”.

The document also noted the progress that has been made on the Energy Action Plan that was announced by Ramaphosa in July, including raising licensing requirements for private embedded generation projects and importing power.