Still Key-Coal will continue to play a key role in SA power future

摘要

THE use of coal to generate power in South Africa would only stop when the resource was depleted, and not because it would be replaced by renewable energy, XMP Consulting senior coal analyst Xavier Prevost said last week. South Africa, the world's sixth-largest coal producer, aims to move away from its 93% dependence on coal for power as it undertakes to reduce domestic greenhouse-gas emissions by 34% against a 'business as usual' baseline by 2020.