Firestone is conducting an optimisation study to review the Waterberg coal project’s capital requirements to enhance the viability of the four-million-ton-a-year thermal coal project. 

First production from the Impumelelo mine is expected later this month. 

The Ngodwana biomass-to-power project is the only biomass project chosen during the fourth Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme bid window. 

Sasol Mining will be required to make a decision on the next replacement mine in 2024. 

Eskom and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa have set up a joint technical task team to review the blow-through procedure ahead of future blow-through tests on the 11 other Medupi units. 

The Medupi power station has received the Pressure Equipment Regulation Certificate of Registration for Unit 6 – the first Medupi boiler set to be connected to the national electricity grid. 

Eskom has reported that work is progressing well on Unit 6, which is scheduled to be synchronised at the end of the year. 

Eskom has offered a detailed timeline for the synchronisation of Medupi Unit 6, which is officially scheduled for December 15, 2014. 

The first shipment of steel cord conveyor belts for use in the construction of the coal transportation system for the Impumelelo colliery, was delivered to the Port of Durban on September 16. 

Eskom has reported that the Unit 6 boiler feed pump one-directional testing has been successfully completed. 

Coal Of Africa’s board has approved a R220-million expansion at the Vele Colliery, in Limpopo. 

The first shipment of 18 1-km-long steel cord conveyor belts, which will be used to construct the coal transportation system for Sasol Mining’s Impumelelo colliery, in Secunda, Mpumalanga, was... 

Construction at the project remains suspended. 

Project management company DRA Group and diversified engineering company ELB Group on Wednesday announced a collaboration that would aim to deliver large-scale materials handling solutions for... 

bauma Africa is continuing to expand: Instead of the originally planned 200 exhibitors, the premiere of bauma Africa (September 18 to 21, 2013) is now expecting to host around 400 exhibitors 

An exciting start to 2013 where DRA Group CEO, Paul Thomson and ELB Group CEO, Stephen Meijers, announced The ARDBEL Joint Venture, a collaboration between the two organisations to combine the best... 

Illegal protest action at the Medupi power station brought work on the project to a standstill on January 17. 

Siemens is on track with its work for State-owned power utility Eskom’s Medupi power station, but is facing challenges, owing to delays in the civil works at the site.