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Sasol Posted: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 [miningmx.com] -- General Electric Co (GE) has installed a new 280 megawatt power plant at Sasol's Secunda coal-to-fuels facility in South Africa, which could help ease the country's energy crisis, it said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The plant is the first such installation in South Africa of GE Energy's gas turbines, and will provide power for the production of Sasol's synthetic fuels, with excess electricity sold to Eskom, the state-owned power utility. "The new Secunda plant will enable Sasol to increase its on-site power generation capacity while also reducing electricity demand on Eskom," said Mark Digby, GE Energy Africa Region Executive in a statement. The state-owned utility Eskom, which provides 95% of the country's power, has been rationing electricity since January, when the national grid nearly collapsed. The crisis has marred South Africa's investor-friendly image and dented economic growth in Africa's biggest economy by cutting gold and platinum output, and slowed big manufacturers.
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