During a recent official visit to China, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s shopping list included exploring advanced clean coal technologies that can be integrated into South Africa’s coal fleet. It is encouraging that the consideration of such technologies was part of economic engagements between South Africa and China, two friendly nations.
This is in the national interest because the South African economy will continue to depend on coal for decades to come. Coal’s abundance and its baseload capabilities are impossible to ignore. There is no better place to learn the latest advanced clean coal technologies than at the world’s biggest manufacturing hub that continues to ramp up coal capacity alongside increasing installation of renewables...
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