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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
Transalloy power station
140th-largest power plant in South Africa of 172 · top 74% worldwide (#22,051 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Transalloys Pty Ltd
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 135 MW
- Fuel
- coal
Comparable power plants · South Africa · 172 ranked
- #1JER Green Hydrogen Solar PV Project (South Africa)12.0 GW · solar
- #138Droogfontein solar farm136 MW · solar
- #139Merak 3 solar plant136 MW · solar
- #140Transalloy power station135 MW · coal
- #141Amakhala Emoyeni wind farm134 MW · wind
- #142Merak 2 solar plant130 MW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Vulcan Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 7.1 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- Eskom
- Substations in range
- 3
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
- Elandsfontein Colliery2.9 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Elandsfontein Colliery2.9 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- 400 kV line4.2 km · Transmission Line
- Khwezela Coal Mine5.3 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Vulcan Substation7.1 km · Substation / Converter
- Grootvallei solar farm12 km · Power Plant · 220 MW · solar
- Klippoort solar farm18 km · Power Plant · 220 MW · solar
- Kusile power station19 km · Power Plant · 4.8 GW · coal
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)