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Paul Burkhardt
@pburkhardt
Journalist (@Business @BBGAfrica) covering energy -- oil/gas, renewables, power and labor in South Africa and sub-Sahara. Retweets not endorsements.
Nov 7, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A glimpse of South Africa's coal dependency: Lethabo Power Station. @Eskom_SA generates most of the nation's electricity from 15 coal-burning plants. Here's a tour of one... A control room at the Lethabo Power Station Lethabo at 36 years old is among Eskom's newer stations with 6×618-megawatt units. Located almost 60 miles south of Johannesburg. It's currently the utility's best-performing coal plant of a long-neglected fleet prone to breakdowns