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Port Elizabeth - Four gas turbines with a 500MW capacity, intended for additional power generation in the Coega development, are for sale on the international market because of delays on the part of Government in approving an independent power station at Coega.
Independent Power Southern Africa (Ipsa), which develops power-generating plants in southern Africa, says its decision to sell the Coega turbines derives from uncertainty about when an independent combined-cycle gas turbine plant at Coega might come into operation.
The red tape involved in enabling the Coega Development Corporation to award leasehold rights for a new independent power plant, is "extremely frustrating", said Ipsa chief executive Peter Earl on Monday.
Because of the delay the refurbished turbines, which would have produced the first of Ipsa's planned 1600MW at Coega, will not be able to be put in operation by mid-2009, as initially planned.
The proposed aluminium smelter and PetroSA's refinery at Coega have both already been postponed because of the country's electricity shortage.
"We are only now where we had expected to be nine months ago. With the political will these processes could run much more quickly," stated Earl.
Earl said that Ipsa was negotiating to buy new turbines with the same specifications, which the manufacturer will deliver directly to Coega when everything is ready for commission.
- Sake24