In 2013 we teamed up with a technical partner, Building Energy, to submit projects to the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP) run by the Department of Energy. An approximately 700 million Rand 16MW biomass project which is set to convert sugar cane waste into 132 000 MW per annum has been confirmed as the Department of Energy’s only biomass project. Once operational it will supply electricity to the national electricity grid using sustainable organic waste from sugar cane. The project may create 400 jobs on the KZN sugar cane farm it is located on and is set to feed electricity back to the Eskom grid in 2017. Read more here: SA Invests in Biomass Energy.
