Talks kick off for 100MW coal bed methane project

The Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security has notified the country’s two most advanced Coal Bed Methane (CBM) producers that talks towards awarding the long-awaited tender to produce 100MW for grid supply, will begin next month.

Both Tlou Energy and Kalahari Energy Botswana were named government’s preferred bidders for the pioneering project in 2019, meaning negotiations would then be hammered out towards a Power Purchase Agreement and spades in the ground.

Tlou Energy and Kalahari Energy Botswana (KEB) are both sitting on trillions of cubic feet of gas reserves in the Central District and are at different, although advanced, stages of progressing the country’s first-ever extraction of CBM for national grid use.

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