Eskom
PO Box 1091, Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: 011 800 8111
Fax: 011 800 2427
Email: annamarie.murray@eskom.co.za
Website: www.eskom.co.za
Contact: Annamarie Murray, Account Executive
Eskom, South Africa's national electricity utility, supplies more electricity than all other suppliers in Africa combined, at prices that are among the lowest in the world.
As a result of lowered costs and effective management, it has kept its annual price increases to below the rate of inflation for 12 consecutive years. Eskom undertook to maintain this trend by reducing the price of electricity, in real terms, by 15% between 1994 and 2000, and achieved this by 1999.
Eskom is a recognised authority on the use of very low-grade coal and dry-cooling technology for power stations. Its electrification drive is bringing electric power to more than one million new people a year.
Eskom is also developing the Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor technology that promises to make a significant impact in power generation around the world.
Eskom has 19 major power stations: 12 coal-fired, two gas-turbine, two hydro-electric stations, two pumped storage schemes and one nuclear power station.
Name Sets Capacity MW (nominal)
Coal-fired stations
Arnot 6x350 2100
Camden 8x200 1600
Duvha 6x600 3600
Grootvlei 6x200 1200
Hendrina 10x200 2000
Kendal 5x686 3430
Komat 5x100;4x125 1000
Kriel 6x500 3000
Lethabo 6x618 3708
Matimba 6x665 3990
Matla 6x600 3600
Tutuka 6x609 3654
Gas Turbine & Diesel stations
Acacia 3x57 171
Port Rex 3x57 171
Hydro-electric stations
Gariep 4x80 320
Vanderkloof 2x110 220
Pumped Storage Schemes
Drakensberg 4x250 1000
Palmiet 2x200 400
Nuclear power station
Koeberg 2x965 1930
Environmental Sectors: Primary: Air Pollution Control, Recovery & Recycling, Consultancy Services
Secondary: Monitoring, Instrumentation & Analysis, Noise & Vibration Control, Waste Management, Water & Wastewater Treatment
