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Rob Dempster
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Solar Power Explosion
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South Africa
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ESKOM's Power Mix
14 March 2025
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- Eskom supplies approximately 90% of South Africa’s electricity and generates more or less 30% of the electricity used in Africa.
- Eskom has 15 coal-fired power stations with an installed capacity of 45 397 MW.
- Eskom’s nuclear power station, Koeberg, has a capacity of 1 934 MW of power.
- Eskom has two conventional hydroelectric power stations, three hydro pumped storage schemes and four non-dispatchable mini hydro stations. These stations are used when there is a sudden increase, or peak, in the demand for electricity which cannot immediately be met by the base load stations. They have a combined installed capacity of 3 393 MW.
- Eskom has four quick reaction gas turbine power stations with an installed capacity of 2 426 MW.
- According to Eskom, there was roughly 9 gigawatts of solar capacity in the country by February 2025,
6.2 gigawatts of which was contributed by private “behind-the-meter” rooftop installations.
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