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It has a 26,300,000 m 3 (21,300 acre⋅ft) water storage capacity of which 21,900,000 m 3 (17,800 acre⋅ft) can be pumped up to the upper reservoir. A 2 km (1.2 mi) long headrace tunnel connects the upper reservoir to the underground power station which houses 4 x 333 megawatts (447,000 hp) reversible Francis pump-turbines .
The runner of the small water turbine. A water turbine is a rotary machine that converts kinetic energy and potential energy of water into mechanical work. Water turbines were developed in the 19th century and were widely used for industrial power prior to electrical grids. Now, they are mostly used for electric power generation.
The Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme is an energy storage facility built in the South African provinces of Free State and KwaZulu-Natal starting in 1974 and completed by 1981. [ 2 ] Four dams are involved in the scheme; the Driekloof Dam ( joined to the Sterkfontein Dam ), the Kilburn Dam , the Woodstock Dam and the Driel Barrage.
There are currently 19 wind energy developments in South Africa with more than 600 wind turbines. [27] On the international scale, South Africa ranks as having fair to reasonable wind resources. [6] Wind power is a renewable, widely distributed and clean form of energy.
Between 2004 and 2010, [1] Lodewyk Botha and Marek Sredzki developed an inflow turbine that captures water's potential energy in addition to its kinetic energy. Principal patents [2] [3] for the technology were registered and published between 2005 and 2011. The first full-scale water wall turbine project was completed in 2016 by Water Wall ...
The project began to come online in 1979 after much political debate. [1] This dam uses the Zambezi River water to generate electricity by turning turbines. That energy is then sent to South Africa. [2] The Cahora Bassa Dam forms Cahora Bassa Lake. The dam is jointly owned by Mozambique and Portugal.
Athlone Power Station was situated on the N2 freeway into the city, consisted of a large brick generation building, two 99m brick chimneys, and two cooling towers, fed by reclaimed water from a nearby sewage plant. It was commissioned in 1962 with 6 turbines with a nominal capacity of 180 megawatts, and operated by the City of Cape Town. [3]