JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--July 22, 2016--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--South Africa's power generation capacity is heavily coal based but is evolving toward lower carbon technologies. According to the Statistical Review of World Energy by BP plc (NYSE:BP) (London, England), in 2013, 72% of the country's total primary energy consumption came from coal, followed by oil (22%), natural gas (3%) and nuclear (3%) and renewable (less than 1%, primarily from hydropower), said Lynn Brown, South Africa's minister of public enterprises in a keynote address at PowerGen & Distributech Africa 2016 in Johannesburg.

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