Private bidders Thabametsi and Khanyisa won the first bid window to build South Africa\u2019s first independent coal-fired power stations, Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Monday at a media briefing in Cape Town.<\/p>\n
The Coal Independent Power Producers (IPP) Programme is the first baseload energy programme which allows the private sector to provide coal-generated energy.<\/p>\n
Thabametsi, based in Limpopo, and Khanyisa, based in Mpumalanga, will collectively provide 863.3MW of coal-generated power to South Africa\u2019s grid within the next five years.<\/p>\n
\u201cKhanyisa is expected to begin commercial operation in December 2020, while Thabametsi will follow closely with generation in March 2021,\u201d Joemat-Pettersson said.<\/p>\n
She added that although South Africa\u2019s energy build plan still incorporates the development of fossil fuel power stations in the foreseeable future, the country remains committed to transition to low-carbon economy. \u201cWe are already seeking ways and new technologies to use fossil fuels with minimal carbon emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n If we don\u2019t go nuclear, SA will face 2008-level power crisis: Molefe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n An African energy revolution driven by gas to power technology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Private bidders Thabametsi and Khanyisa won the first bid window to build South Africa\u2019s first independent coal-fired power stations, Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Monday at a media briefin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":139475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-139473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139477,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139473\/revisions\/139477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More on power<\/h3>\n
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