Bigger, better Mmamabula set for rebirth

At its height around 2007, the Mmamabula project promised 2,400MW of power driven by a coal mine on a resource measuring 2.7 billion of various coal qualities.

Due mainly to market issues, the then project developers reduced the planned power station to 1,200 MW in 2008, before focusing on a 300MW project whose power would be sold to government.The downsizing of the power station component of the Mmamabula project coincided with a heightened focus on coal exports of up to 10 million tonnes per year.