ESI Africa has released Volume 6 of Powering Mines & Industry, addressing the critical link between mining, industrial power, and the global energy transition. The publication provides a comprehensive resource for professionals navigating industrial electrification and clean energy developments across Africa.
Nicolette Pombo-van Zyl, Editor-in-Chief of ESI Africa, emphasized the need to redesign power systems for reliability, resilience, and local value creation. “Mines are now strategic energy and mineral assets in the low-carbon era,” she said, highlighting the publication’s focus on the circular relationship between mining and access to affordable, high-quality power.
Volume 6 of Powering Mines & Industry explores mining, industrial power, and Africa’s role in the energy transition.
Exploring Africa’s mining and energy nexus
The volume underscores a striking energy paradox: while Africa holds abundant mineral resources critical for the clean energy transition, it currently captures less than 1% of the global clean energy manufacturing market. The publication stresses that mines must electrify intelligently, plan regionally, finance proactively, and mine responsibly to enable climate resilience.
Readers will explore investment trends, policy landscapes, and beneficiation opportunities, including producing low-emission commodities like green iron and low-emissions ammonia using Africa’s solar and wind potential. It also examines renewable integration challenges, noting that renewables supply only 30–40% of total mine energy demand, while providing lessons from coal mines on electrical inefficiencies and Contract Demand management.
Insights for climate-resilient industrial growth
The volume offers guidance for stakeholders in the commercial and industrial (C&I) energy and storage market, where private power traders and integrators deliver cost-competitive green energy solutions. It highlights a “process approach” to unlock energy efficiency in open-cast mining and reveals five hidden truths about minerals powering the green revolution, including mid-stream processing leverage, the “Hitchhiker Problem,” and limits imposed by the “Recycling Paradox.”
Volume 6 of Powering Mines & Industry is now available as a free downloadable PDF, providing essential insights for mining and industrial players seeking to enhance climate resilience and sustainable development.
Access the publication here:
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