Elitheni Coal Project, Indwe, Eastern Cape

Projected Capacity

500 MW

Fuel/Type

Coal-fired

Elitheni is an IPSA development project which is being accelerated to come on stream as soon as possible. This project to develop up to a 500 MW mine mouth coal-fired project using state of the art clean coal technology using coal from the Elitheni mine. It is one of the first such plants planned by the private sector for South Africa and it was originally envisaged as a single 400 MW project, but was increased to 500 MW split between several sites due to favourable coal reserve reports. The plants is to be built at Indwe, situated in the Eastern Cape north of both Port Elizabeth and East London, site of one of the earliest coal deposits brought into production in South Africa. The Coal Supply Agreement entitles IPSA to an annual amount of 17.5 million gigajoules of coal per annum, which will be approximately 1 million metric tons per annum for the duration of the Coal Supply Agreement, which is 25 years.

IPSA is looking to develop two more small clean coal plants of around 250 MW each at East London and Port Elizabeth on industrial zones. If built, these would take the total size of IPSA sponsored clean coal plants to 1,000 MW using Elitheni coal.