{"id":215269,"date":"2022-02-01T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/coal-industry-must-help-map-a-way-forward-mantashe\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:15:57","slug":"coal-industry-must-help-map-a-way-forward-mantashe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coal-industry-must-help-map-a-way-forward-mantashe\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal industry must help ‘map a way forward’ \u2013 Mantashe"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, says while coal production remains a strategic sector for the country, it must innovate and commit to \u201cmoving from high carbon to low carbon emissions\u201d as part of the country\u2019s just energy transition.<\/p>\n

He was speaking during an engagement with South African coal producers held at the Council for Geoscience on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cDomestically, the commodity will continue to play a role in developing economic energy mix, steel and cement industries but its use will eventually decline as nations and businesses strive to reduce their environmental impact and abide by climate policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must as a sector map out clearly an engagement strategy on the national interests with regards coal.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoal remains an important commodity as highlighted by the massive reserves. It is upon the coal industry to help map out its future,\u201d Mantashe said.<\/p>\n

The Minister said despite challenges rising from the need to reduce carbon emissions, the sector remains an \u201cessential component\u201d in South Africa\u2019s energy mix.<\/p>\n

The industry accounts for 70% of energy consumed and 95% of the energy produced in the country.<\/p>\n

He said government also intends to assist the industry to transition to cleaner technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Coal] will remain the mainstay of South Africa\u2019s energy basket for the next 10 to 20 years and a strategic sector, as well as a job provider. The new Eskom build and the coal Independent Power Producers will sustain the coal industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a significant player in the country\u2019s economy and future contributor considering the value on the ground, government intends introducing interventions that will not sterilise the development of its coal resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, all new coal power projects would be based on high efficiency, low emission technologies and other cleaner coal technologies coupled with underground coal gasification, Fluidized Bed Combustion (FBC) and the development of Carbon Capture and Storage,” Mantashe said.<\/p>\n

Addressing South Africa\u2019s just energy transition, Mantashe said South Africa\u2019s \u201cnational realities\u201d must be weighed while the country moves towards lower carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cA just energy transition must out of necessity speak to the national development interests of our massive endowment with coal, current status of baseload generation, sizeable contribution to [the Gross Domestic Product], large contingent of employees [at least 85 000] and other relevant economic factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurtherance of the COP26 agenda cannot afford to ignore these national interests altogether but, should be integrated into plans serving our national development interests as it is with all other States bargaining the global trajectory of climate change,\u201d he said. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, says while coal production remains a strategic sector for the country, it must innovate and commit to \u201cmoving from high carbon to low carbon emissions\u201d as part of the country\u2019s just energy transition. He was speaking during an engagement with South African coal producers held at the Council […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-215269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/coal-industry-must-help-map-a-way-forward-mantashe.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}