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- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Power Plant
Kelvin power station
90th-largest power plant in South Africa of 172 · top 63% worldwide (#18,531 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Anergi International Ltd
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 180 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1957
- Retired
- 2022
Comparable power plants · South Africa · 172 ranked
- #1JER Green Hydrogen Solar PV Project (South Africa)12.0 GW · solar
- #88Dwaalboom 3 solar farm180 MW · solar
- #89Prieska Power Reserve solar farm180 MW · solar
- #90Kelvin power station180 MW · coal
- #91Pretoria West power station180 MW · coal
- #92Red Sands BESS solar farm178 MW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Apollo Inverter Station
- Its voltage
- 533 kV
- Distance
- 23 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- Eskom
- Substations in range
- 4
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Kelvin power station0 m · Power Plant · 600 MW · gas
- Kelvin power station0 m · Power Plant · 420 MW · coal
- Teraco JB5 Isando Campus2.2 km · Data Centre
- Teraco JB5 Data Centre2.2 km · Data Centre
- OADC Isando2.3 km · Data Centre
- Johannesburg South Cement Plant14 km · Cement Plant
- Scaw Metals Group Germiston steel plant18 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Lesotho – South Africa interconnection18 km · Interconnector · 230 MW
- Namibia – South Africa interconnection18 km · Interconnector · 350 MW
- Botswana – South Africa interconnection18 km · Interconnector · 615 MW
- Kendal - Minerva 121 km · Transmission Line
- Thuso Pluto 122 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)