Contractor for Mpumalanga power lines EIA named

Engineering and environmental consultants Jones & Wagener announced earlier this month that it had been appointed to undertake an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the proposed construction of two loop-in and loop-out 400 kV power lines to connect the approved KiPower independent power producer (IPP) coal-fired power plant to State-owned power utility Eskom’s national grid. Jones & Wagener was appointed by local coal mining and beneficiation company Kuyasa Mining on behalf of its subsidiary KiPower.