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The southern African country is seeking to improve its energy security and diversify away from heavily polluting coal.
Speaking at the signing of the PPA, Botswana Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security Minister Lefoko Moagi revealed that the government had committed itself to procuring up to 100 MW of CBM from local developers in the next few years, as part of a shift towards renewable energy.
“The CBM resources still remain largely unexplored and thus not yet available for base-load generation,” he said.
“However, I am pleased to inform you that further prospecting work is on-going to prove commercial viability of CBM, with method of extracting being one of the main areas of focus.”
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Tlou also wants to use its Lesedi CBM-to-power (GTP) project to serve as a springboard for blue and green hydrogen production.
Tlou said in May that it intended to develop a “hydrogen strategy” to complement the GTP scheme. This strategy should be relatively easy to implement, it said, since the company has already secured some of the assets and administrative permits it will need to move into hydrogen production.
“A hydrogen strategy would benefit from Tlou’s extensive approvals secured to date, including environmental, gas and solar generation licences, access to land and established in-country operational expertise,” it explained.
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