Kendal (H 8)

Name: Kendal

Source: http://www.eskom.co.za/live/content.php?Item_ID=170
History: Construction of Kendal began in July 1982 with its last unit coming into operation in 1993. Kendal is currently the largest coal-fired power station in the world and holds several Eskom performance records.

General: Kendal has an indirect dry-cooling system, which means that it uses significantly less water in its cooling processes than the conventional wet cooled power stations. The station's cooling towers are the largest structures of their kind in the world with a height and base diameter of 165m.

Kusile is the name for a new coal fired power station previously known by the working name of Project Bravo: This is a new coal fired power station project located to the West of the R545 between the N4 and N12 freeways near the exisitingKendal Power Station. It comprises of six units rated at approximately 4800 MW installed capacity. The first unit is planned forcommercial operation in 2012 with the last unit in operation by 2015/2016
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