# Minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, says as the country moves towards decarbonisation and the establishment of the green economy, investment required for new transmission lines stands at 440-billion-rand. The government has set a target of 102 gigawatts of new generation capacity in addition to the 14-thousand-500 kilometre of transmission lines that need to be built to expand the grid. Ramokgopa says investment needed for new generation capacity is around 2.2-trillion-rand. He adds that what government is doing in the energy sector constitutes 30-percent of the country’s economy.
Minister Ramokgopa says investment of over R2-trillion is needed for new generation capacity