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Asset classes
- 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
Chokepoints
Power Plant
Lethabo power station
7th-largest power plant in South Africa of 172 · top 2% worldwide (#354 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 3,708 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1985
Comparable power plants · South Africa · 172 ranked
- #1JER Green Hydrogen Solar PV Project (South Africa)12.0 GW · solar
- #5Kendal power station4.1 GW · coal
- #6Matimba power station4.0 GW · coal
- #7Lethabo power station3.7 GW · coal
- #8Tutuka power station3.7 GW · coal
- #9Matla power station3.6 GW · coal
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Glockner Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 15 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 765 kV
- Line operator
- Eskom
- Substations in range
- 2
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
- New Vaal Coal Mine2.9 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Lefa Coal Mine11 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Durban–Sasolburg Oil Pipeline14 km · Pipeline
- Sukuma Coal Mine15 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- 400 kV line15 km · Transmission Line
- Glockner Substation15 km · Substation / Converter
- Sasolburg Chemical Plant16 km · Chemical Plant
- Mooiland solar farm17 km · Power Plant · 120 MW · solar
- Natref Refinery18 km · Refinery · 108 kb/d
- ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark Steel Works18 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Blesbok solar farm20 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Mercury - Zeus22 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)