Coal power plants in South Africa

33 coal power plants in South Africa, totalling 63,467 MW of installed capacity — ranked by size, from open data.

#	Plant	Region	MW
1	Kusile Power Station	Gauteng	4,800
2	Medupi West power station	Limpopo	4,800
3	Medupi power station	Limpopo	4,769
4	Majuba power station	Mpumalanga	4,143
5	Kendal power station	Mpumalanga	4,116
6	Matimba power station	Limpopo	3,990
7	Lethabo power station	Gauteng	3,708
8	Tutuka power station	Mpumalanga	3,654
9	Matla power station	Mpumalanga	3,600
10	Duvha power station	Mpumalanga	3,000
11	Kriel power station	Mpumalanga	3,000
12	Arnot power station	Mpumalanga	2,352
13	Hendrina power station	Mpumalanga	2,000
14	Camden power station	Mpumalanga	1,600
15	Coal-3 power station	Limpopo	1,500
16	Unnamed South Africa coal projects	Northern Cape	1,500
17	Boikarabelo power station (CESC)	Gauteng	1,320
18	Grootvlei power station	Mpumalanga	1,180
19	Colenso power station	KwaZulu-Natal	1,050
20	Komati Power Station	Mpumalanga	990
21	Namane power station	Limpopo	660
22	Thabametsi power station	Limpopo	630
23	Kelvin power station	Gauteng	600
24	Boikarabelo power station (Resgen)	Gauteng	600
25	Khanyisa power station	Mpumalanga	600
26	KiPower power station	Mpumalanga	600
27	Umbani power station	Mpumalanga	600
28	Vedanta power station	Limpopo	600
29	Waterberg Coal power station	Limpopo	600
30	Elitheni power station	Eastern Cape	300
31	Richards Bay Umbani power station		270
32	Sibanye Gold power station	Limpopo	200
33	Transalloy power station	Mpumalanga	135

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

Status	Records
Mothballed	2
Not Reported	18
Operating	15
Shelved	2

Capacity provenance quality

Quality label	Records
current source verified gem operating units 2026	1
legacy source record not current verified	22
source verified gem tracker location 2026	11
source verified wikidata p2109 strict match	3

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