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GE Energy has signed a 15-year service agreement with Sasol to provide monitoring and diagnostics for the synthetic fuels company’s new 280MW power plant in Secunda.

Eskom has secured a $500m 20-year loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to help finance its capacity expansion programme (AE 149/11).

The Johannesburg-based South African National Energy Research Institute (Saneri) has been awarded the rights to host the Southern African Regional Secretariat for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP).

Eskom says it has prequalified 27 companies or consortia as potential independent power project developers under its multi-site base load independent power producer programme.

IPSA Group has reached agreement with Elitheni Coal to supply the coal for some 250MW of its initial power projects in the Eastern Cape.

South Africa’s Exxaro Resources has signed an agreement with Eskom for the supply of 14.6m t/yr of coal over the next 40 years for the Medupi power station.

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Homeland Energy Group announced on 23 September the signing of its first sales contracts for about 500,000t of thermal coal from its newly inaugurated Kendal mine near Witbank.

Eskom has turned to the government to act as the guarantor for existing and future debt. Eskom is seeking to raise around R150bn ($18.5bn) through bank borrowing and bond sales, most of which will be spent on new coal-fired power stations, although Eskom’s capital spending programme also includes a second nuclear power plant and new combined cycle gas-fired units.

Eskom has invited bids for the supply of flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment for its Kusile coal-fired power station near Witbank, in Mpumalanga province.

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The South African utility has warned that its coal needs run the risk of outstripping local supply within ten years, posing a fresh challenge to southern Africa’s energy industry, writes Our Cape Town Correspondent. Faced with rising coal exports from the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) and a slowdown in new coal mining projects,

Kentz Group has won a R1.75bn ($250m)-plus contract for the procurement, fabrication and site installation of air-cooled condensers and equipment for the new Medupi Power Station in Limpopo Province (AE 132/7).

The board of Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) will meet later this month to work out how it will handle additional coal exports from black-owned mining companies in 2009.

South Africa and Venezuela have signed an energy co-operation deal that would give state oil company PetroSA access to Venezuela’s Orinoco oil fields.