Indian Power companies eyeing South Africa for coal imports

Monday, February 15,  

Indian Power companies plans to begin exploring for coal in South Africa after scouting its search in Indonesia and Australia.Power companies shift their focus to South Africa for sourcing raw mateerials to cater their thermal project needs.*

Power secretary P Uma Shankar recently visited African content to seesight the possibility of extracting coal in South Africa and neighbouring African nations like Botswana and Mozambique. 

The visit (to South Africa) was good… Importing coal from African nations or picking of equity stakes in the coal mines, these are some of the options we have to look at,” Power Secretary P Uma Shankar told PTI. 

“We all know that domestic fuel is not sufficient, we need to import fuel to fire our plants,” he said, adding that South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique are some of the companies on the radar. “ said Shankar