{"id":9826,"date":"2012-04-11T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/anglo-eyes-power-plant-project-in-s-africa-paper\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:07:47","slug":"anglo-eyes-power-plant-project-in-s-africa-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/anglo-eyes-power-plant-project-in-s-africa-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo eyes power plant project in S.Africa-paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American<br \/>\nplans to build a 450 MW power plant in South Africa to supply<br \/>\nelectricity to its platinum subsidiary Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n, the Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The paper quoted the head of the company&#8217;s coal division in<br \/>\nSouth Africa Norman Mbazima as saying the plant would cost more<br \/>\nthan $1 billion and that seven parties had bid to build the<br \/>\nplant near Witbank in eastern Mpumalanga province.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The plant, which was expected to start producing electricity<br \/>\nin 2015, would reduce Amplats&#8217; reliance of power supply from<br \/>\nstate-owned Eskom and cushion it from large price increases.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Anglo Thermal Coal could not immediately be<br \/>\nreached for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has been struggling to meet demand for power as<br \/>\nconstruction of new plants meant to plug the shortfall have been<br \/>\ndelayed. Supply would remain vulnerable until the first units of<br \/>\nEskom&#8217;s new stations become operational next year.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda, editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American plans to build a 450 MW power plant in South Africa to supply electricity to its platinum subsidiary Anglo American Platinum , the Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday. The paper quoted the head of the company&#8217;s coal division in South Africa Norman Mbazima as saying the plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","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=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}