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The power station is operated by the Electricity Department of the City of Cape Town. [4] It consists of four hydroelectric turbines, each rated at 45 MW, for a total capacity of 180 MW. During peak hours, water from the upper reservoir is used to turn the turbines to generate clean energy. [3]
The city then set a goal of 40% non-Eskom energy by 2030 and 100% clean energy by 2050. [170] Cape Town has adopted a range of local policies to even out local electricity demand daily as of 2022. [171] This includes using the Steenbras Dam pumped water scheme to reduce the impact by up to two loadshedding levels. [172]
In 1893 the town (now neighbourhood) of Wynberg in Cape Town opened a power station to provide power to a local tram system and public streetlights. [15] This was followed by the first municipal power station built by the City of Cape Town in 1895 with the construction of the Graaff Electric Lighting Works to power 775 streetlights. [16]
[citation needed] Athlone Power Station in the city was too small to provide Cape Town's needs, and the Paarden Island power station (also too small) has been demolished. Koeberg was one of the first nuclear power stations designed to be resistant to earthquakes. The reactors at the Koeberg nuclear power station are built on an aseismic raft ...
Athlone was the last coal-fired power station operating in Cape Town; the others, in the city centre and Salt River, were demolished in the 1980s and 1990s. The cost of transport means that coal costs three to five times more in Cape Town than it does near the mines inland, making it more economical to transmit power from there to Cape Town ...
Steenbras Upper Dam is an earth-fill type dam located in the Hottentots Holland Mountains above Gordons Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa. It impounds the Steenbras River upstream of the older Steenbras Dam. The dam was constructed in 1977 for the City of Cape Town and serves mainly for municipal and industrial use. The hazard potential of ...
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The city of Kimberley was one of the first users of public electricity when it installed electric streetlights in 1882 to reduce crime at night. [14]: 5 [15] This was followed by Cape Town in 1895 with the construction of the Graaff Electric Lighting Works to power 775 street lights.