South Africa

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Fossil fuels Nuclear Renewables
Coal Crude Oil Natural Gas Uranium** Hydro Other renewable
Total amount in specific units*
Total amount in exajoules (EJ)

TABLE 2. ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Final Energy consumption [PJ] 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019 Compound
annual growth
rate 2000–2019 (%)
Total 2 263 2 546 2 645 2 788 2 803 1.13
Coal, Lignate and Peat 605 721 658 682 588 -0.15
Oil 667 789 929 1 073 1 132 2.82
Natural gas 36 78 50 94 99 5.47
Bioenergy and Waste 329 263 277 247 246 -1.52
Electricity 626 694 728 687 733 0.83
Heat 0 1 3 5 5

TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION

Electricity production (GWh) 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019 Compound
annual growth
rate 2000–2019 (%)
Total 210 670 244 922 259 601 249 655 252 223 0.95
Coal, Lignate and Peat 193 419 229 055 241 872 228 498 221 244 0.71
Oil 0 78 197 183 182
Natural gas 0 0 0 0 0
Bioenergy and Waste 307 285 332 372 443 1.95
Hydro 3 934 4 199 5 067 3 729 5 798 2.06
Nuclear 13 010 11 293 12 099 12 237 13 525 0.20
Wind 0 12 34 2 500 6 511
Solar 0 0 0 2 136 4 521
Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

2000 2005 2010 2015 year*
Nuclear/total electricity (%)

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2020

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]
Status Operator Reactor
Supplier
Construction
Date
First
Criticality
Date
First Grid
Date
Commercial
Date
Shutdown
Date
UCF
for
2020
KOEBERG-1 PWR 930 Operational ESKOM FRAM 7/1/1976 3/14/1984 4/4/1984 7/21/1984 94.6
KOEBERG-2 PWR 930 Operational ESKOM FRAM 7/1/1976 7/7/1985 7/25/1985 11/9/1985 78.9
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.