Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme

Power station in South Africa

Placepumped-storage power stationQ1663455

Also known as Braamhoek

Country: South Africa
Located in: KwaZulu-Natal
, Free State

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The Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme is a pumped-storage power station in the escarpment of the Little Drakensberg range straddling the border of the KwaZulu-Natal and Free State provinces, South Africa. It is about 22 km (14 mi) North-East of Van Reenen.

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13 statements · 8% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Nominal power output: 1,332 MW
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1.eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022_integrated_report.pdf
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Operator: Eskom
Located in or next to body of water: Tugela River
Service entry: 2016
Location: De Beer's Pass
Connects with: Bedford Dam
Bramhoek Dam

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1 identifiers linking Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme across the web's reference databases

Freebase ID/m/04m_nzd

-28.2802, 29.5880OpenStreetMap ↗

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