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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
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Power Plant
Rooiwal power station
60th-largest power plant in South Africa of 172 · top 44% worldwide (#12,901 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Tshwane Electricity Division
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 300 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1962
Comparable power plants · South Africa · 172 ranked
- #1JER Green Hydrogen Solar PV Project (South Africa)12.0 GW · solar
- #58Belle Solar Cluster solar farm300 MW · solar
- #59Soventix PV Project solar farm300 MW · solar
- #60Rooiwal power station300 MW · coal
- #61Korosun 2 cluster wind farm295 MW · wind
- #62Secunda power station280 MW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Thuso Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 38 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- 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
- 400 kV line14 km · Transmission Line
- Pretoria Cement Plant20 km · Cement Plant
- Apollo - Phoebus - Dinaledi21 km · Transmission Line
- Pretoria West power station24 km · Power Plant · 180 MW · coal
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)