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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ South Africa

South Africa has 890 power plants totalling 66,388 MW and 83,146 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in South Africa by source
Source Output Count
coal 48,236 MW 23
solar 4,411 MW 760
hydro 3,612 MW 31
wind 3,597 MW 37
diesel 2,008 MW 14
nuclear 1,960 MW 2
gas 1,861 MW 9
oil 335 MW 4
battery 333 MW 4
biomass 25.00 MW 2
biogas 10.00 MW 1
waste 1
[unspecified] 2
All 66,388 MW 890

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 187 km 0.2%
25 kV – 51 kV 292 km 0.4%
52 kV – 131 kV 16,337 km 19.6%
132 kV – 219 kV 26,624 km 32.0%
220 kV – 329 kV 8,766 km 10.5%
330 kV – 549 kV 21,050 km 25.3%
550 kV – 2,799 km 3.4%
No voltage tagged 7,083 km 8.5%
Total 83,146 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2025-10-04