Medupi dry-cooled power station

Overview:

• The Medupi dry-cooled power station is a greenfield coal-fired, dry-cooled power plant located near Lephalale, Limpopo.
• The plant is owned and operated by Eksom, South Africa's state-owned public electricity utility.
• It will be the largest of its kind in the world upon completion. The boiler and turbine contracts for the plant are the largest contracts Eskom has signed in its 90-year history. 
• It is the fourth dry-cooled, baseload station built by Eskom in the past 20 years after Kendal, Majuba and Matimba.
• Unit five of the station began commercial operations in April 2017, one year ahead of schedule.

Anna Kozakova - Journalist