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2014

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa

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Global powerhouse bringing new technology to Africa Editorial: Joe Forshaw Production: Ajuanne Payne Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa is currently working on site at the Medupi and Kusile power stations, installing supercritical boilers. Each will be about 115m high and will combust coal to heat water and produce steam to turn turbines. Head of Sales and Business Development, David Milner tells IndustrySA more about this unique organisation and its work on these mega South African projects.

Something big is bubbling away in South Africa, something that is set to change the country’s energy mix significantly. Eskom’s Medupi and Kusile power stations are under construction and when they reach commercial operation in 2018 and 2017 respectively, each will add around 4800MW to the country’s energy mix.

Medupi, a greenfield coal-fired power station, is located west of Lephalale in Limpopo Province and Kusile, a new coal-fired power station, is located in the Witbank area of Mpumalanga province, alongside the existing Kendal power station.

But what makes these projects so important is not only their eventual contribution to the country’s energy demand, but also their sheers size.

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Employing thousands of local and international contractors, using innovative and exciting technologies, these are projects that will go down in history as some of Africa’s most significant.

And right at the core of both developments is Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa (MHPSA), a subsidiary of the Germany-based Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbH, established in 2014. MHPSA executes the engineering, manufacturing, supply, construction and commissioning of fossil fuel-fired power plants including steam and gas turbines in the sub Saharan Africa region. The company also supplies key components such as air quality control systems, coal mills and feeders and provides engineering services.

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MHPSA Head of Sales and Business Development, David Milner tells IndustrySA more about the company’s involvement with Medupi and Kusile and more about some of the mega pieces of equipment that the company is currently installing on site in Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

“To put things into perspective - normally in Europe when they put in a supercritical unit, they will build one or two of these in a block. Here we are building six units in a block and we are building two power plants so two blocks. We are involved in some of the largest construction projects in the southern Hemisphere currently at these two sites.

“The energy produced by a single unit at Medupi and Kusile would power 80 high-speed German trains simultaneously and there’s six units going in

at each so at full capacity the power produced is significant,” he says.

“Anybody that goes to the sites is amazed by the sheer scale of the project. It is enormous, the whole power plant is huge and the construction site, which extends beyond the boundaries of the power plant, is an enormous undertaking. Because of its enormity, that brings major challenges for us and we have of course been focussed on the first priority, safety, then productivity and maintaining the schedule. We have got the safety issue where we want it but productivity and schedule issues are giving us the challenges.

“We and all the partners on site are working towards getting the first unit at Medupi online

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company profile by the end of the year and that is the number one goal at the moment.”

TURNING UP THE HEAT MHPSA has an extensive, extremely high-tech product range including some of the most advanced pieces of equipment available on the market today.

At Medupi and Kusile, the focus is on boilers – supercritical boilers but Milner explains that in the future MHPSA will provide more and more products to different projects and industries around the Southern African region.

“Right now at Medupi and Kusile, we are installing boilers but going forward the product range will be more diverse. There is a push within Southern Africa towards gas and we have a lot of good products for that market. It’s a market that we are addressing; we are active in Mozambique, Tanzania and in Namibia

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on the Kudu Project,” he says.

“The boilers take the coal that is mined at the mine next to the power station, they combust that coal and heat water into steam. That steam has a lot of energy. The steam is then routed through a steam turbine; it turns the turbine which then drives a generator which produces electricity.

“We have a number of similar units running around the world and a number under construction.

Many of the units are in Europe and they are entering commissioning and commercial operation.

We are following the progress on these units, which are mainly in Germany, but also in the Netherlands, Poland and Eastern Europe. The commissioning schedule of some of these units is ahead of Medupi and Kusile which allows us to transfer some of the resources out of Europe back to South Africa for continues on page30...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Powerand Systems Africa Murray & Roberts Projects (em)powering Medupi Kusile power stations Demand for electricity in South Africa is increasing progressively. This trend places significant pressure on existing power infrastructure. With the last power station built in South Africa more than 30 years ago, much of the South African skills and knowledge of organising and building power stations has been disseminated. However, Murray & Roberts has some of the best local capability through its experience in constructing much of South Africa’s existing power station infrastructure over the past 50 years and is playing a pivotal role in the development of South Africa’s new power station infrastructure with major involvement in the construction of the Medupi and Kusile power stations.

These power stations, comprising 12 units of about 800MW each, will rank amongst the largest dry-cooled thermal power stations in the world. The social impact of this new build programme in terms of employment is significant, with Medupi alone employing some 17 000 employees and contractors at its peak. The Murray & Roberts Projects scope includes structural steel fabrication, erection and mechanical installation works for both power stations.

Significant Project Scope To successfully complete the Medupi and Kusile projects, the following quantities, resources and equipment will be needed per station: Structural Steel: Ducting: Piping: Welding: People: Height of boiler structure:

102 000 tons (the equivalent of 14 Eiffel Towers) 36 000 tons 8 162 tons 300 000 field welds 6 000 (Murray & Roberts Projects specific at peak) 110m

The massive scale of the work being undertaken at Medupi and Kusile and the experience and skills gained, put Murray & Roberts Projects well ahead of its competitors in terms of proven capability to execute new power projects of various types. With a total focus on Safety, Production, Quality, Cost and People measures, Murray & Roberts Projects is confident it will deliver to the client’s expectations and through the emphasis of two way communication and engagement of all stakeholders, ensure a positive and proactive employee relations environment.

A Social Investment As a proudly South African company and one of the largest employers on site, Murray & Roberts Projects prides itself in the role it is playing not only in the development of critical power capacity, but also in developing much needed local skills for these and future projects.

At Medupi, 572 apprentices have already been trained, while 182 have so far received recognised artisan training at Kusile. At both sites the transfer of skills from expatriates to locals is constantly emphasised. In addition, 14 bursaries have been awarded, while total training spend to date amounts to R49 million at both sites.

Murray & Roberts is proud to be involved in Medupi and Kusile; they are examples of the way in which we add permanent value in whatever we undertake. This infrastructure will be utilised for decades to come and will contribute to social upliftment and economic growth.Murray &Roberts has created employment, developed skills, applied technology and delivered infrastructure throughout South and Southern Africa for more than 110 years.

Post Medupi and Kusile, Murray & Roberts Projects will be well positioned to apply its experience and skilled resources to future power projects under consideration in South Africa and across the African continent.

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Murray & Roberts is playing a pivotal role in the development of South Africa’s new power station infrastructure with major involvement in the construction of the Medupi and Kusile power stations.

These power stations, comprising 12 units of about 800MW each, will rank amongst the largest dry-cooled thermal power stations in the world.

The social impact of this new build programme in terms of employment is significant, with Medupi alone employing some 17 000 contractors and labourers at its peak.

The massive scale of the work being undertaken at Medupi and Kusile and the experience and skills gained, put Murray & Roberts Projects well ahead of its competitors in terms of proven capability to execute new power projects of various types.

Tel: +27(011) 456-1000 Email: mrpcommunications@murrob.com Web: www.projects.murrob.com PAGE 6 AUG 14

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Murray & Roberts is South Africa’s leading engineering and construction services company. It has delivered infrastructure throughout South and Southern Africa for more than 110 years and is today recognised as an international engineering and construction group.

Murray & Roberts is a group of world-class companies and brands aligned to the same purpose and vision, and guided by the same set of values.

The company offers civil, mechanical, electrical, mining and process engineering, general building, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance services. Murray & Roberts does so in the global underground mining market, selected international oil & gas markets, selected African power and industrial markets and selected African infrastructure sectors.

Murray & Roberts operates in Southern, Central and Western Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australasia and North and South America. The company is based in Johannesburg South Africa, where it has a public listing on the JSE Limited. It has principle offices in Australia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America and Zambia.

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company profile continued from page26... the commissioning phases of Medupi and Kusile.”

This sort of boiler technology is the result of years of research and development from both Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi Power Systems. Since the two companies joined forces, there has been a strong focus on Africa and this has required products to be tailored to African conditions.

“The core technology is developed either in Japan or Europe,” explains Milner. “The investment required is so large that you have to do these things on a global scale. Our role in South Africa is to localise the technology so that it is fit for purpose for our local conditions and also ensuring we can add value to the economy in South and SubSaharan Africa by manufacturing the majority of the project here instead of importing.

“For example; local coals have certain characteristics, the availability of water is different, climate conditions, elevations and temperatures are different. All this requires some modification of the technology to suit the regional requirements that we have here so we have to liaise closely with the parent companies in Germany and Japan, with

whom we have a wonderful relationship. We’re honoured to receive the group CEO, Takato Nishizawa, from Japan every two months. For such a large international group to take such a keen interest in us, is a wonderful achievement for us and indicates the level of interest the group has in Africa - we are very happy with the support that we are getting from Germany and Japan on these projects.”

“We are very happy with the support that we are getting from Germany and Japan on these projects” But even with a strong African impetus and a product range that is almost unrivalled, there have still been issues to navigate and these have surrounded the skills required for projects like Medupi and Kusile and the level of complexity of some of the machines involved.

“One of the challenges we face is that the last power station that was built in South Africa was

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Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa by our company so we have a significant amount of potential when it comes to providing service for that fleet and when it comes to Medupi and Kusile we are engaging with Eskom to potentially be responsible for the maintenance and the upkeep of the units at these two power stations.”

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completed over 15 years ago. This means a lot of the skills and experience have left the country or gone into retirement and manufacturing capacity has been lost. Therefore we have had to re-establish the entire industry value chain from manufacturing through to construction and commissioning; all of this has started from new. In addition to that, these units will be the biggest dry cooled units in Africa. Previous units supplied to Eskom have are around 600MW, these are 800MW, and these are supercritical units whereas previous units have been sub-critical so the technology is different and the machines are more sophisticated and complex,” explains Milner.

But nevertheless, Medupi and Kusile still take up the majority of MHPSA’s current workload and this looks set to continue in the future even though the company does have a list of other prominent clients in South Africa.

“They dominate anything else that we are doing,” says Milner. “We are working for Sasol, where we originally supplied 16 of their steam generators back in ‘80s and they’re looking at potential refurbishment and upgrades so we’ve got some contracts there. In addition to that, 30-40% of the boilers in the Eskom fleet were originally supplied

The birth of MHPS was an exciting one, not just for South Africa with Medupi and Kusile, but for the global power industry. The joining of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi Power Systems saw much of each company’s product range merged with the result being not just two competitors in the energy industry but one powerhouse company capable of offering advanced services to the global market place.

“The thinking started in 2012, and the conclusion reached by both companies is that they were competing, both Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi Power, in the same markets. To be successful in this market you need global reach and a certain critical mass. What the two companies found was by working together they would be able to bring the best of the two organisations and the best of the two products

SELEPE PROJECTS is an electrical and instrumentation installation contractor.

Our Services include manufacturing and installation of the following:

• Plant reticulation, cable racking and routing • Lighting and Small Power • Electrical Installation, Construction and Commissioning • Instrumentation Installation, Construction and Commissioning • Emergency power, UPS’s and Generator systems • MCC’s switchgear • Control Panels • Distribution Boards • Junction boxes • Earthing and Lightning protection • Construction management • Quality Control HEAD OFFICE: Unit 4 Persequor Close, 49 De Havilland Crescent, Persequor Techno Park, Lynnwood, Pretoria, South Africa | P.O. Box 74083, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 TEL +27 (0) 12 349 2534/5 | FAX +27 (0) 12 349 2542 E-MAIL info@selepeprojects.co.za

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company profile two teams and support from both sides of the deal has resulted in MHPSA being firmly recognised as one company.

“It is now one company and what the parent companies have done in Japan is quite clever. They have integrated the two sets of personnel into one team and ensured there is a sprinkling across the company of previous Hitachi people and previous Mitsubishi people who work alongside each other in the same office. They’ve consolidated the office locations, moved the various people and it now works as a completely integrated team,” he says.

“In South Africa, Mitsubishi didn’t have any significant assets; it was really all Hitachi Power.

So what we have seen is a significant contingent of personnel out of Japan, predominantly from the Mitsubishi folder, to assist us on Medupi and Kusile and further projects going forward. What we have now in the company is over 50 colleagues from Japan and around 100 colleagues from Germany plus around 400 South Africans in the company here in South Africa.”

together to have a unit that was able to compete with the other major power companies in the world - General Electric and Siemens,” explains Milner.

“It took about a year to clarify how they were going to do it and they formally announced that they would go ahead with the merger in July 2013.

From then up until the 1st February 2014, all of the arrangements were put in place for the joint venture. In South Africa, we started the local business on March 1st 2014 as we had a few more regulatory hurdles.

“Mitsubishi and Hitachi have put together their thermal power groups into the joint venture but they haven’t put all their power assets in. For example, they have kept their wind and solar assets separate and they’ve kept the nuclear assets separate, but the thermal power, which is steam power, gas power, geothermal and some thermal renewable products have all gone into the joint venture which is Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems,” he says.

Even though the completion of the merger in South Africa is still a recent event, Milner suggests that there has been no problems integrating the

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“Anybody that goes to the sites is amazed by the sheer scale of the project.

It is enormous, the whole power plant is huge and the construction site, which extends beyond the boundaries of the power plant, is an enormous undertaking” And since the completion of the joint venture, MHPSA’s product portfolio has grown and can now meet most challenges put to it by the energy industry. Because of this, business development activities have been ramped up and Milner was bought in to assist.

“Now that we have such a wonderful product portfolio, it’s completely changed the outlook of the organisation. Instead of just having one product which was largely boilers, we now have a complete set of technologies from gas turbines, steam turbines and boilers to Integrated Gasification continues on page36...

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We build them smaller, too.

SVK Holdings prides itself on being solely responsible for Structural Steel logistics on both the Medupi and Kusile Power Projects, South Africa’s new coal-fired power plants.

On completion, these will be the largest dry-cooled, coal-fired power stations in the world, delivering a total of 4764 MW each.

But SVK does not only deliver excellence in construction, logistics and energy supply for mega projects. The experienced team also excels at smaller projects: from shopping malls, office parks, and aeroplane hangars, to schools and a variety of mechanical and civil work. Our skills include steel fabrication and erection, as well as alternative modular construction and sophisticated logistics management.

However, our real talent lies in the values that drive the company: strength, vision and knowledge.

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Maintenance & Project work: Insulation

Sheet metal work

ISC provides industrial insulation to vessels, piping, tanks and equipment (like boilers, precipitators, bag filters, ovens, reactors) for hot, cold and acoustic applications.

Our workshops in Vanderbijlpark and satellite workshops on specific sites, manufacturers flashings, vents, ducting (all shapes), gutters, down pipes and various other form pieces in numerous types of metal like chromadek, mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium and galvanised sheeting (plain or coated) with a thickness of up to 1.5mm depending on the type of material.

Industrial painting, sand/shot blasting We have many years’ experience in the preparation and application of protective coatings in various environments and work closely with our suppliers who are specialists in their field, ensuring that specific high standards are maintained and passed onto our clients.

Industrial Sheeting We offer sheeting and cladding in the domestic (housing, churches & schools), commercial (shopping centres & warehousing), industrial (factories & plants) and construction sectors of the industry. We have removed and replaced most profiles of sheeting used in the market such as industrial 7, IBR, Delta Rib and corrugated.

These sheets can be replaced with various types of material such as chromadek, aluminium, zinc alume, stainless, galvanised and fibre cement sheeting as specified by the client’s needs. ISC also offers rain water goods such as guttering, valley gutters, down pipes and static ventilation systems as well as whirlybirds. Maintenance contracts with bigger role players such as Sasol, BHP Billiton and Arcelor Mittal ensures that the installations crews are updated with all the latest methods and safety requirements.

Asbestos removal When it comes to the demolition, renovation and upgrading of old buildings with asbestos sheeting, ceilings, gutters, flashings or lagging, ISC has registered trained asbestos demolition teams to handle the applications. Procedures, training and decontamination units are available to carry out the correct and safe removal, disposal of the asbestos containing products. Our procedures comply with the regulations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act

Fireproofing This service is associated with construction work at most petrochemical factories. ISC fireproofs structural steel work, vessel skirts and cable racks. This service is usually done during maintenance shut down.

Scaffolding ISC erects and maintains scaffolding to SANS 10085 standards. This is also offered to other mechanical contractors and disciplines of work.

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Combined Cycle (IGCC) products etc, and therefore the company decided it needed to be able to take all of these products to the market in South Africa as well as the rest of sub-Saharan Africa so we have established, and we are busy expanding, our business development activities.

“I was recruited and joined in March. My working career is in South Africa but I spent six years in the UK getting some international EPC experience and I was enticed back to South Africa by MHPS to run the business development activities for the group here,” he explains.

DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES As you can imagine, for a company with such important and valuable products, the opportunities for application are large. Wherever there is a requirement for energy related activity, across the whole of Africa, MHPSA can assist.

Milner tells us that while the continent is vast,

“Now that we have such a wonderful product portfolio, it’s completely changed the outlook of the organisation” there are still many opportunities within South Africa’s borders and MHPS products can address these opportunities while contributing to a more energy efficient economy.

“We know that the government of South Africa intends to contract for 2.4GW of additional coal capacity through IPPs so we will be looking to participate in that in some way. In addition there is also an anticipation of a similar quantity of gas projects in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique which we are keenly anticipating.

“Firstly, we have some of the most efficient gas turbine technology in the world. Secondly, we have some new technology that can be applied to coal integrated gasification combined cycle - which has much higher efficiency than a traditional coal fired power plant and therefore produces a lot less CO 2

and we are cognisant of the need to move towards a greener method of producing electricity and this is one way to make better use of coal resources while minimising the carbon footprint.

“The third area is co-generation which is taking waste heat or waste sources of energy and converting into electricity and we have a good range of technologies here. Finally, we have geothermal which is the technology largely applied in the East of Africa where our company is already the number one provider of geothermal power plant and there are a number of projects anticipated going forward,” he says.

Importantly, through this advanced product range and the work being carried out at Medupi and Kusile, MHPSA is classed as one of the top companies in its field and regularly competes with the some of the world’s biggest and most recognisable names.

“There are one or two very large and very strong competitors in the field that we are in and largely we meet the same competitors, GE, Siemens and Alstom, throughout the world and likewise in South Africa. Right now, by value, we are the number one supplier of power plant in Southern Africa,” Milner explains.

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Skye-Lab Technologies Cc assures its customers of professionalism, accountability and non-compromising standard of its service and solutions.

Skye-lab Technologies Cc is 100% Black Owned and managed.

Our Services include but are not limited to: Implementation of Project QMS, Project Management, Design and Engineering, Manufacture, Configuration Management & Data Control, Consultation, Training & Certification, Metallurgical Failure, Investigations, Capability & Capacity Assessment, Technical Evaluation, On-site Technical Audits and Surveillances, Asset Tracking and Tracing, Review of Data Packages, Expediting and Procurement Support, Recruitment, Turnkey Structural Steel including Light, Medium & Heavy Steel Fabrications.

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company profile MORE EFFICIENT, MORE GREEN Being part of this elite group, at the very forefront of the industry means that you have to address the concerns of market stakeholders. One of the primary concerns in the energy industry in recent times has been carbon emissions and how to effectively reduce them without impacting on operational performance.

At Medupi and Kusile this is no different. The South African government has set out its targets on country-wide carbon emissions and with an everincreasing global focus on ‘green’ energy MHPS has to address the need for efficient systems and Milner says that the goal of the company is to produce power in the cleanest way possible through on-going research and development.

“Any thermal power generation, by definition, produces CO 2,” he says. “Our goal is to produce energy in the most efficient and environmentally friendly ways possible. We recognise that whilst society wants to maximise its renewable energy technologies, currently, that cannot entirely replace thermal power generation, we have to have thermal power generation to provide base load energy when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.

“Having said that, our goal is to produce power

in the most environmentally friendly way possible and this is one of the reasons for the merger between our two companies because the investment required in developing technologies to make them as environmentally friendly as possible is enormous and you need massive economies of scale to be able to do that. So our move into supercritical power generation, which is probably in the order of about 3-4% more efficient than sub-critical power generation, is one thing and the move to IGCC is the next step and which is 4-8% more efficient than supercritical.

“There is also an anticipation of a similar quantity of gas projects in South Africa and Mozambique which we are keenly anticipating” “Each time we get more efficient we produce less CO2. So if we look at an older power station and

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Zwane Inspections (Pty) Ltd is a BEE Company established in 2001. Zwane Inspections is rated as a Black Woman Owned (BWO) enterprise and is a level 3 contributor according to the BBBEE codes scorecard. We offer a wide range of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) services aimed at improving availability and safety of Eskom plants. Zwane Inspections is a well-established company with a multitude of experienced professionals working at the operational level. Zwane technicians are Eskom approved.

Our Mission is to deliver professional service and advice to our clients in line with sound business and safety principles, which will enable them to increase plant efficiency and safety.

Zwane offers the following services:

Large scale projects related to the metallographic replication of industrial plants Metallurgical & Welding engineering consulting -In-situ Hardness testing; Surface preparation (polishing for NDT purposes); Metallographic Replica Evaluation; Project Management (Eskom experienced engineers to assist with on-site project management); Ultrasonic Testing (SAQCC & PCN certified technicians); Magnetic Particle Inspections (SAQCC certified technicians); Penetrant Testing (SAQCC certified technicians); In-house SAQCC Level III; Dimension testing.

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compare it to not only Medupi and Kusile but to IGCC, we are halving the amount of CO2 for each MW of power that we produce and we believe that is a positive contribution to reducing the overall CO2 that is produced around the world. In addition to that we have a number of renewable energy products that are thermal, such as geothermal – a completely renewable energy source – that we have put a lot of effort into. Then there is cogeneration, which involves taking biomass and other waste heats and utilising them in power generation.”

And what about the future? Where will the next step in environmental improvement come from? Milner says that carbon capture technology is showing real potential, and of course, MHPS is again leading the way in this field.

“Certainly on thermal power generation, either gas or coal, carbon capture is a potential major game changer and we are at the forefront of carbon capture technology. Once that technology is commercialised, that will again lead to reductions in CO2 from thermal power plant.”

But right now, the focus remains on Medupi and Kusile and just last month South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister, Lynne Brown said that she was confident construction of the first unit at Medupi would be complete in December this year. The completion

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of the R105 billion power plant is expected to ease the pressure from Eskom’s ageing power grid which has in recent months buckled under pressure to supply electricity to both residential and industrial customers.

“Once that technology is commercialised, that will again lead to reductions in CO₂ from thermal power plant” And this demonstrates further the importance of the work being done by MHPSA, highlighting how important the newly formed company’s work in Africa really is. This is work that will positively affect the general population and for this alone MHPS should be applauded .

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