Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 3

Plugging the generation gap – South Africa goes into overdrive

  • Author:
  • Leonard Sanford
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 33 to 33

(Modern Power System, May 2006, pp. 39–41).

Abstract

South Africa's dominant power producer Eskom has been forced to speed up its transmission investment programme dramatically to meet spiraling demand and avoid future blackouts around the country in particular in the Western Cape, and may fast-track a new conventional nuclear plant.

Keywords

Transmission and distribution, Power producer Eskom, Transmission investment program, Continental transmission