Harith wants to build Joburg’s first gas-fired power plants
The new plants could jointly produce between 450MW and 700MW of power, depending on the technology used
05 February 2021 - 17:56
Harith General Partners, which funds infrastructure development across Africa, is pushing ahead with plans to build the first gas-fired power plants in Gauteng and is exploring options to source the fuel.
The fund manager wants to build two gas-fired plants at the site of its coal-fired Kelvin Power Station, which lies east of Johannesburg. The government’s energy blueprint, known as the Integrated Resource Plan, includes proposals to bring gas to the region from 2023 at the earliest, and that target isn’t ambitious enough, according to Sipho Makhubela, Harith’s CEO...
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