Tshwane Seeks Proposals to Renovate Coal-Fired Power Plants
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The City of Tshwane, a metropolitan area that includes South Africa’s capital Pretoria, is seeking proposals to renovate two coal-fired power plants to help end electricity shortages caused by insufficient generating capacity at the state-owned utility.
The municipal authority, which covers an area with at least 2.9 million inhabitants, wants to restore output at its Pretoria West and Rooiwal power plants to their design capacity and to alter the fuel they use from anthracite, an expensive quality coal, Dorah Nteo, chief sustainability specialist at the City of Tshwane, said in a presentation at Bloomberg’s Johannesburg offices on Tuesday.