"Oh yes, absolutely on the table. Like I said, as our IRP, our integrated resource plan, suggests that we should look at about 2,500 megawatts, and the expert team is helping me just to design what that would look like from an affordability scale and pace and then also on the procurement framework," Ramokgopa said on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week international forum when asked to confirm the talks with Rosatom on the plant.
"So we hope that the Rosatom is active across many parts of the world […] it will respond to the bid, and hopefully we will get to choose a bidder that helps to meet our own interest from an affordability point of view is something that we can justify. So we are looking forward to that exercise," the minister added.
"The issues around our commitment to climate change, our contribution to greening, if you like, the economy of the world, and making sure that we address challenges associated with climate change, I guess, is going to be part of that contribution," he noted.