The Department of Minerals Resources and Energy (DMRE) has made “significant progress” in the process of promulgating the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Bill, DMRE deputy director-general for mining, minerals and energy policy Ntokozo Ngcwabe has told the Windaba 2022 conference in Cape Town. Approval by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, and submission to the full Cabinet, should both happen next month. Subsequently, it would be tabled in Parliament. She explained that, at that point, Parliament’s own processes, procedures and timescales took over and the DMRE no longer had any control over the progress of the Bill. The department would follow and monitor the parliamentary process, to be ready to respond to any queries or comments that might be generated by the parliamentary process.
