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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
Chokepoints
Power Plant
Vanderkloof hydroelectric plant
76th-largest power plant in South Africa of 172 · top 50% worldwide (#14,857 of 29,849)
- Owner
- South African Department of Water and Sanitation
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 240 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 1976
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- #74Mercury 2 solar farm240 MW · solar
- #75Middlepunt solar farm240 MW · solar
- #76Vanderkloof hydroelectric plant240 MW · hydro
- #77Mooi Plaats solar farm238 MW · solar
- #78Longyuan Mulilo De Aar Maanhaarberg wind farm235 MW · wind
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 765 kV
- Line operator
- Eskom
- Substations in range
- 0
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 line16 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)