Palapye, once said to be the fastest-growing village in Africa, is a large town in Botswana, situated about halfway between Francistown and Gaborone. Over the years its position has made it a convenient stop-over on one of southern Africa’s principal north-to-south rail and road routes.
Located here is the Morupule Colliery Coal Mine (MCM), which supplies Morupule Power Station, Botswana’s principal domestic source of electricity. The power station has undertaken an expansion project to increase its generation capacity to meet the country’s increasing demand for electricity. The Motheo Project, which commenced with commissioning as of December 2021, expanded the coal production of Morupule to allow for high scalability, with the addition of an opencast mine, an integrated coal handling and processing plant (CHPP) as well as supporting infrastructure. This expansion also assisted with providing increased power generation and job creation for local settlements.
Visitors:
| Name of operation | Type of Operation | Owner of Operation | Commodity |
| Morupule Coal Mine | Opencast and underground | Minerals Development Company Botswana | Coal |
| Morupule Power Stations | Power generation | Bots Power Corp | Power generation |
Exhibitors we would like to see:
Exhibitors we would like to see at this expo include companies that supply equipment or products to the coal mines or power stations, or equipment or products that can be used in the coal mining or power generating process. Palapye is a coal mining and power station area, if you are involved in these industries then this is the expo for you.
Additional needs include high temperature and high-pressure valves, hydraulic filters, actuators, electronic equipment, oil analysis, conveyor technology, ventilation fans, electrical protection systems, green tech, gas detection and HDPE piping for underground.
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