Status Under construction Units operational 6 × 800 MW | Nameplate capacity 4,800 MW Phone +27 13 230 6163 | |
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Kusile Power Station (formerly known as the Bravo Power Station) in South Africa is a coal-fired power plant under construction by state electricity utility Eskom, about 15 kilometres north of the existing Kendal Power Station near Witbank, Mpumalanga.
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- Coal supply
- Timeline
- Delays
- Corruption
- Finances
- Financial Institution Support
- Environmental impacts
- Opposition
- References
It is expected that Kusile would consist of six 800 megawatt coal-fired generating units for a total generating capacity of 4,800 megawatts.
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Coal supply
In the minutes of a stakeholder briefing, Eskom stated that it "will obtain most of the coal required for Kusile Power Station from Anglo Coal's New Largo operations, south east of the Kusile Power Station."
Eskom’s consultants estimate that 35 new coal mines will be required to support the Medupi and Kusile plants.
Timeline
Delays
Initially expected to take 6 years to complete, the project is not expected to complete Unit 1 until 2017 (approximately 8 years after initial works began) and the entire project not until 2021.
Corruption
Hitachi Power Africa, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., was found by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to have made US$6 million in corrupt payments to a front company for the African National Congress, the ruling political party in South Africa. Hitachi agreed to pay the SEC US$19 million to settle the charges. Hitachi Power Africa is conducting its works at Kusile now under the name Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Africa after a reorganization in February 2014 combining Hitachi, Ltd.'s and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry's interests in the region.
Finances
Kusile Power Station is estimated to cost R118 billion to complete.
Financial Institution Support
The following institutions are involved in supporting the Kusile Power Station:
Multilateral development banks
Banks
Export Credit Agencies
Investment Funds
Environmental impacts
The plant is expected to emit an estimated 36.8 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent per year once it is completed.
A 2011 report "The True Cost of Coal: The monstrous price of South Africa's coal addiction" by Greenpeace Africa and the University of Pretoria’s Business Enterprises unit calculated the full costs of the Kusile plant, from climate change to water use, and the impact on health and the environment. It was estimated that the damage caused by Kusile will cost South Africa between R31.2 billion and R60.6 billion a year, and that just 30% of Kusile’s externality cost would be able to generate five times the coal station’s proposed power with renewable energy. Roughly 70% of the total cost was water-related.
Opposition
In November 2011, Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a gate and some climbed a crane to protest the Kusile power station and South Africa's dependence on coal, a few weeks before the country will host a global conference on climate change. Authorities arrested nine people, who were ordered to return to court Nov. 21 on charges of trespassing and malicious damage to property.