African Carbon Energy
This is arguably the largest coal resource in the Free State province
Having acquired surface rights , Africary has access to 600 hectares , but has completed exploration drilling on a 100 hectare area to obtain a measured resource of roughly four million tonnes of coal . Production at this first site will make use of very efficient syngas-rated gas engines , and the plant is set for operation in 2017 .
“ This is enough to run our 50 Megawatt ( MW ) power station for 16 years , and if you consider that we still have 996 million tonnes of Inferred coal left , we are here for the long run ,” Brand said . “ It is a whopping large resource .”
The South African Department of Energy ( DoE ) recently unveiled a 2,500 MW coal base load IPP
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