Other power plant in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Approximate location -28.7617, 31.9934.
OtherKwaZulu-NatalSouth AfricaCO₂ reported
Richards Bay Mill power station is a 150 MW other power station in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is operated by Mondi South Africa Pty Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 112,403 homes (estimated). It ranks #32 of 122 South Africa power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 322,380 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 75,147 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 699 gCO₂/kWh (17.8% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6239.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Mondi South Africa Pty Ltd.
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 28.8°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 99% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #4 largest other power plant of 4 in South Africa by capacity.
South Africa has 4 other power plants in this dataset, together about 2,014 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -28.7617, 31.9934 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
