Department of Minerals and Energy: Designated National Authority

Documents for public comment

The DNA for South Africa makes all submitted Project Design Documents (PDDs) available for public comment for a period of 30 days prior to an approval decision being made. This is done primarily by posting a copy of each PDD on this web page for that period.

The table below identifies PDDs that are currently open for public comment. These can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate PDD title in the table.

Comments on the PDDs are welcomed by the DNA and can be made by clicking on the "email comments" link within the table.

PDD Title	Project Description
CCE Solutions Biomass to Electricity Project	The proposed project activity will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by supplying clean electricity into the national grid and replacing electricity generated from fossil fuel sources. The project will apply the pin hole spreader boiler system with an installed capacity of 8.4MW to combust 85, 000 tones/annum of wood waste to generate electric power. The wood waste comes mainly from local sawmill industries as well as working for water program. The generated electricity is fed into the George local municipal grid, which is part of the national grid system. The proposed project activity will reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by 54,153 tCO2 per annum.
Location	George, George Local Municipality, Western Cape
Status	Not Registered
Period	24 June 2009-24 July 2009
Send comments to DNA	Ndiafhi.tuwani@dme.gov.za or lufunoleonard.mukwevho@dme.gov.za

PDD Title	Project Description
Beatrix Methane Capture	The Beatrix mine is owned by Gold fields and located in the Free State Province of south Africa. The mining activity releases underground methane. The proposed project will pipe the undergroungd mine methane up the main Beatrix shaft (number 1 shaft) and to the surface where it will be flared and used to generate electricity. The project will be implemented in two phases: the first phase will be the installation of flaring system. At this stage all the mine methane will be flared. The first phase, or flaring of all the mine methane, will occur in May 2009. The second phase will be the installation of the installation of the power plant in January 2010. In phase two, the mine methane will be used to generate electricity and any excess methane will be flared. Electricity will be generated by combusting the mine methane in internal combustion engines. It is estimated that the project activity will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 326, 512 tCO2e per annum.
Status	Location	Period
Not registered	Virginia, Free State Province	21 January 2009 – 06 February 2009
Send comments to DNA	Ndiafhi.tuwani@dme.gov.za or lufunoleonard.mukwevho@dme.gov.za

PDD Title	Project Description
New England Landfill Gas to Energy Project	The proposed project will collect, destruct and utilize the Landfill Gas (LFG) generated at the New England Landfill site. The project activity will consist of two distinct stages: in the first stage, LFG will be captured and destroyed by using a LFG flare, while in the second stage the captured LFG will be fed to the LFG flare and a modular electricity generation. The generator will combust methane in the LFG to produce electricity for export to a local power purchaser. The installed capacity is expected to be approximately 2MW.The proposed project activity will reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by 53,625 tCO2 per annum.
Location	New England Road,Pietermaritzberg
Status	Not Registered
Period	28 April 2009-28 May 2009
Send comments to DNA	Ndiafhi.tuwani@dme.gov.za or lufunoleonard.mukwevho@dme.gov.za

PDD Title	Project Description
Alton Landfill Gas to Energy Project	The proposed project will collect and utilize the landfill gas generated at the closed Alton landfill site. The project activity includes two distinctive stages. In the first stage, the methane will only be captured and destroyed through flaring. The second stage is that the captured methane will be fed to the landfill gas (LFG) flare and modular electricity generation plant. The generators will combust the methane to produce electricity for export to a local purchaser. Excess LFG and all gas collected during periods when electricity is not produced will be flared. The maximum installed capacity is expected to be approximately 0.4MW.
Status	Location	Period
Not registered	Richards Bay; uMhlathuze	22 May 2008 – 21 June 2008
Send comments to DNA	Ndiafhi.tuwani@dme.gov.za or lufunoleonard.mukwevho@dme.gov.za

PDD Title	Project Description
Metropolitan Municipality Landfill Gas Recovery Project [PDF, 223 kb]	The projects entails the extraction of landfill gas at all landfill sites in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality ( Simmer and Jack; Weltevreden; Rietfontein; and Rooikraal). It comprises of two phases, first phase: collection and flaring of methane and second phase: electricity generation from the recovered methane gas from the landfill sites.
Status	Location	Period
Not registered	Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng	01 April to 01 May 2008
Send comments to DNA	Lufuno.Mukwevho@dme.gov.za or ndiafhi.tuwani@dme.gov.za

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