Coega plans gas facility

The Coega Development
Corporation has issued
a tender notice for an
Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) for a gas to
power facility.
The proposed facility will
be situated less than 4km
from the 400kV Dedisa
substation.
According to Sasol’s
chairman, David Constable,
“Special economic zones such
as Coega are ideally suited
because of their location to
gas-producing global regions,
and because of its proximity
to South African shale gas
mining fields which are
located in the Karoo.”
The proposed gas-to-power
plant will be the second power
plant in the Coega IDZ after
the Dedisa Peaking Power
Plant – a R3.5-billion liquid
fuel open cycle gas turbine
with a 342-megawatt (MW)
generation capacity.