The national utility Eskom has been converting (since 2017) its OCGT power stations to also run on natural gas after the discovery of gas fields. From the historical data given by BP's Statistical Review of World Energy it seems like South Africa used gas to generate electricity into the grid in the period 2007 - 2014, up to 3.1 TWh in the year 2014. As far as I know, Eskom's peaking power plants have been running on kerosene and diesel, is there another power plant that has been using gas, that I might not know of? Thanks in advance!
South Africa has been using natural gas for electricity generation for many years. The consumption during the period 2011-2021 was between 3 and 5 billion cubic meters.
Thank you Jorge Morales Pedraza for your response. Would you by any chance know which power plant(s) in particular has been generating from natural gas? Now that you highlighted that for sure natural gas has been used, I'm thinking it should be of one or all of the OCGT power stations.
These are some of the power plants that use gas for electricity generation:
1- Acacia Power Station Western Cape.
2- Ankerlig Power Station Western Cape.
3- Gourikwa Power Station Western Cape.
4- Newcastle Cogeneration Plant Kwa Zulu-Natal.
5- Port Rex Power Station Eastern Cape.
6- Avon Peaking Power Kwa Zulu-Natal (Shakaskraal).
7- Dedisa Peaking Power Eastern Cape (Coega).
Jorge Morales Pedraza thank you very much for your valuable input. I will certainly have to visit Dedisa; funny enough I did not know about it all along, maybe it's because I have been relying too much on Eskom website for information; which seems not to be giving much information about IPPs.
According to the information I have, all these power plants use natural gas for electricity generation.
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