The company conducting an environmental assessment for a planned Chinese-backed industrial park in Limpopo says plans to build a coal-fired power plant "may not be an option" due to of the new pledge by Chinese President Xi Jinping to stop funding coal power abroad.
The Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone is a proposed 8 300ha industrial park near the border with Zimbabwe. The project is being steered by the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (Leda).
The project is supposed to include a power station, to provide electricity to what Leda hopes will become a hub for heavy industry, including a coking plant, a steel plant and a ferromanganese blast furnace.
