Camden Power Station

The Camden 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 1,580 MW and comprises 6 X 200 MW units and 2 X 190 MW units. The power station is located at Ermelo, Mpumalanga. In 2007 Eskom recommissioned 390 megawatts and plans to recommission a further 390 megawatts in 2008.

Power distribution
In addition to feeding the South African grid, Camden, along with Arnot Power Station, also feeds the Mozal Aluminium smelter in Mozambique via 400kV transmission lines. Mozal consumes around 950MW.

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