One of the two bidders for the first round of South Africa’s Coal Baseload Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (CBIPPPP), Marubeni, of Japan, expects the evaluation of bids to begin in April, following an initial delay in the Independent Power Producer (IPP) Office receiving the necessary approvals from government to proceed. Marubeni Middle East and Africa Power is a co-developer of the 600 MW Thabametsi IPP project, situated near Lephalale, in Limpopo, and which would be developed to produce power from coal supplied by Exxaro’s greenfield Thabametsi mine.
