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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ South Africa

South Africa has 791 power plants totalling 63,790 MW and 82,852 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in South Africa by source
Source Output Count
coal 45,833 MW 22
solar 4,238 MW 668
hydro 3,603 MW 28
wind 3,597 MW 37
diesel 2,008 MW 14
nuclear 1,960 MW 2
gas 1,848 MW 7
oil 335 MW 4
battery 333 MW 4
biomass 25.00 MW 2
biogas 10.00 MW 1
waste 1
[unspecified] 1
All 63,790 MW 791

If multiple sources are listed for a power plant, only the first source is used in this breakdown.

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Power Lines
Voltage Length Percentage
0 V – 9 kV 8 km 0.0%
10 kV – 24 kV 79 km 0.1%
25 kV – 51 kV 284 km 0.3%
52 kV – 131 kV 16,429 km 19.8%
132 kV – 219 kV 26,592 km 32.1%
220 kV – 329 kV 8,764 km 10.6%
330 kV – 549 kV 20,767 km 25.1%
550 kV – 2,795 km 3.4%
No voltage tagged 7,134 km 8.6%
Total 82,852 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2025-04-28