Other power plant in Orange Free State, South Africa. Approximate location -26.8223, 27.8483.
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SASOL ONE is a 314 MW other power station in Orange Free State, South Africa. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 236,144 homes (estimated). It ranks #26 of 122 South Africa power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 622,020 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 144,993 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-6236.
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).
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 26.8°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 56% 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: 27/100 — 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 #3 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 -26.8223, 27.8483 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
