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Coal power plants in South Africa

37 coal power plants in South Africa, totalling 67,847 MW of installed capacity — ranked by size, from open data.

#PlantRegionMW
1Kusile Power StationGauteng4,800
2Medupi West power stationLimpopo4,800
3Medupi power stationLimpopo4,769
4Majuba power stationMpumalanga4,143
5Kendal power stationMpumalanga4,116
6Matimba power stationLimpopo3,990
7Lethabo power stationGauteng3,708
8Tutuka power stationMpumalanga3,654
9Matla power stationMpumalanga3,600
10Musina-Makhado power stationLimpopo3,300
11Duvha power stationMpumalanga3,000
12Kriel power stationMpumalanga3,000
13Arnot power stationMpumalanga2,352
14Hendrina power stationMpumalanga2,000
15Camden power stationMpumalanga1,600
16Coal-3 power stationLimpopo1,500
17Unnamed South Africa coal projectsNorthern Cape1,500
18Boikarabelo power station (CESC)Gauteng1,320
19Grootvlei power stationMpumalanga1,180
20Colenso power stationKwaZulu-Natal1,050
21Komati Power StationMpumalanga990
22Namane power stationLimpopo660
23Thabametsi power stationLimpopo630
24Kelvin power stationGauteng600
25Boikarabelo power station (Resgen)Gauteng600
26Khanyisa power stationMpumalanga600
27KiPower power stationMpumalanga600
28Lephalale Coal and Power ProjectLimpopo600
29Umbani power stationMpumalanga600
30Vedanta power stationLimpopo600
31Waterberg Coal power stationLimpopo600
32Rooiwal power stationGauteng300
33Elitheni power stationEastern Cape300
34Richards Bay Umbani power station270
35Sibanye Gold power stationLimpopo200
36Pretoria West power stationGauteng180
37Transalloy power stationMpumalanga135

WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Lifecycle and source reconciliation

This page contains 37 positive-capacity records totalling 67,846.8 MW. Lifecycle labels, capacity scope and capacity-quality provenance are kept separate so a source-backed capacity is not mistaken for a verified operating status.

15records with a resolvable source link
22records without a retained record-level link

Lifecycle labels in this page slice

StatusRecords
Mothballed2
Not Reported18
Operating15
Shelved2

Capacity provenance quality

Quality labelRecords
current source verified gem operating units 20261
legacy source record not current verified22
source verified gem tracker location 202611
source verified wikidata p2109 strict match3

Unknown upstream labels remain unclassified; they are never guessed. Download the exact records used here: CSV · JSON with limitations.