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Pumped water is used quite a lot here in South Africa to help handle peak load in the national grid. It's probably going to continue to play a huge role as we t
by liampulles 2y ago
Pumped water is used quite a lot here in South Africa to help handle peak load in the national grid. It's probably going to continue to play a huge role as we transition to more solar.
- makoto12 2y agoi'm only aware of the one supporting cape town. do we have more for the main grid?
- Dead_Lemon 2y agoIngula Pumped Storage, KZN, 1,332MW Drakensberg Pumped Storage, FS, 1,000MW Palmiet Pumped Storage, WC, 400MW Steenbras Pumped Storage, WC, 180MW Steenbras is the only plant installed and maintained by City of Capetown, the rest are Eskom facilities (Its mentioned occasionally, by eskom, that load shedding continues over a weekend, or late evenings, to restore pumped storage for the week/productive hours) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_South_Africa#Pumped_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Sout...