Renergen mulls power generation from surprise gas discovery in Free State
17 December 2019 - 01:00
Emerging gas producer Renergen is inviting proposals to generate as much as 100MW gas-fired power, enough to electrify 6,500 average households, after making a new find at its Virginia project.
The potential power project comes as SA’s monopoly power utility Eskom struggles to keep up with electricity demand and last week implemented stage 6 load-shedding, which forced some SA mines to halt production...
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