Sustainability

Environmental

Environmental Challenges

PPC's response to the power crisis

• In the wake of the 2008 power crisis, PPC has adopted a proactive approach to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa's (NERSA) proposed power conservation programme and has worked hard in the last year to prepare for a possible mandatory reduction in the power use of PPC operations.
• An energy management team has been established at each operation affected by the power conservation programme. These teams are led by a central energy management team under the leadership of the technical department, and have been tasked with identifying potential power-conservation opportunities throughout the group.

The mass balance process:

• Issues hindering implementation of the mass-balance project include lack of capacity (skills shortage). Support to the plants has been through capacity-building interventions undertaken by the PPC environmental and process services departments.
• Issues hindering implementation of the mass-balance project include lack of capacity (skills shortage). Support to the plants has been through capacity-building interventions undertaken by the PPC environmental and process services departments.
• The challenges of using secondary materials as alternate fuel sources.
• Compliance with environmental laws and standards given the increasing quantum of legislation promulgated by environmental authorities in different spheres of government. PPC is, however, an active member of government working groups and contributes to changes in legislation.