Kendal Power Station

KENDAL POWER STATION

Location: Approximately 40km southwest of Witbank in Mpumalanga

Employees: Approximately 830

Technical details:

Six 686MW units
Installed capacity: 4 116MW
2001 capacity: 3 840MW
Design efficiency at rated turbine MCR (%): 35.30%
Ramp rate: 16.67% per hour
Average availability over last 3 years: 93.69%
Average production over last 3 years: 24 691GWh

History: Construction of Kendal began in July 1982 with its last unit coming into operation in 1993. Kendal is currently the largest coal-fired power station in the world and holds several Eskom performance records. The station is 13 years old this year.

General: Kendal has an indirect dry-cooling system, which means that it uses significantly less water in its cooling processes than the conventional wet cooled power stations. The station's cooling towers are the largest structures of their kind in the world with a height and base diameter of 165m.

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