Grootvlei Power Station

The Grootvlei 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 1,200 megawatts (MW) and comprises 6 X 200 MW units. The power station is located at Balfour, Mpumalanga. Eskom plans to recommission 585 megawatts in each of 2008 and 2009.

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