Komati Power Station

The Komati Power Station is a coal-fired station owned by the South African publicly-owned electricity utility Eskom that was mothballed in 1990 but is currently in the process of being recommissioned.

The power station has an installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts (MW) and comprises 5 X 100 MW units and 4 X 150 MW units. The power station is located at Middelburg, Mpumalanga. Eskom plans to recommission 120 megawatts in 2008, 240 megawatts in 2009, 320 megawatts in 2010 and 285 megawatts in 2011.

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