Karpowership won environmental authorisation for one of three ship-mounted power plants it wants to connect to the South African grid, a key step in fulfilling a contract it won more than two years ago.
The Turkish company said the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment gave it permission to go ahead with the installation of a 450MW gas-fired plant in the northeastern port of Richards Bay.
It has also applied to install a 450 MW plant in the southern port of Ngqura and a 320 MW plant in the western port of Saldanha. The “projects will make an important contribution to combating South Africa’s energy crisis,” it said. While the initial target date for power production for Karpowership and other winners in the tender was August 2022, none of them are up and running yet.
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