South Africa

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Fossil fuels Nuclear Renewables
Coal Crude Oil Natural Gas Uranium** Hydro Other Renewables (solar and wind)
Total amount in specific units* 185.37 24.28 153.09 43.07 0.78 9.81
Total amount in exajoules (EJ) 4.08 1.04 0.15 0.16 2.81x10-3 3.53x10-2

TABLE 2. ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Final Energy consumption [PJ] 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 Compound
annual growth
rate 2000–2020 (%)
Total 2 263 2 546 2 645 2 788 2 788 1.05
Coal, Lignate and Peat 605 721 658 682 860 1.77
Oil 667 789 929 1 073 952 1.80
Natural gas 36 78 50 94 96 5.04
Bioenergy and Waste 329 263 277 247 237 -1.63
Electricity 626 694 728 687 637 0.09
Heat 0 1 3 5 5 0.00

TABLE 3 BELOW PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF INSTALLED CAPACITIES OF ESKOM AND IPPS.

Electricity production (GWh) 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 Compound
annual growth
rate 2000–2020 (%)
Total 210 670 244 922 259 601 249 655 239 955 0.65
Coal, Lignate and Peat 193 419 229 055 241 872 228 498 209 735 0.41
Oil 0 78 197 183 198 0.00
Natural gas 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bioenergy and Waste 307 285 332 372 442 1.84
Hydro 3 934 4 199 5 067 3 729 6 132 2.24
Nuclear 13 010 11 293 12 099 12 237 11 230 -0.73
Wind 0 12 34 2 500 6 624 0.00
Solar 0 0 0 2 136 5 594 0.00

TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION

Final Energy consumption [PJ] 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2021*
Nulcear/total electricity(%) 6.6 5.5 5.2 4.7 5.9 6

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

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
2021
KOEBERG-1 PWR 924 Operational ESKOM FRAM 1976-07-01 1984-03-14 1984-04-04 1984-07-21 50.9
KOEBERG-2 PWR 930 Operational ESKOM FRAM 1976-07-01 1985-07-07 1985-07-25 1985-11-09 99.5

TABLE 6: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2021

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
2021
KOEBERG-1 PWR 924 Operational ESKOM FRAM 01/07/1976 14/03/1984 04/04/1984 21/07/1984 51.1
KOEBERG-2 PWR 930 Operational ESKOM FRAM 01/07/1976 07/07/1985 25/07/1985 09/11/1985 99.5
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.

TABLE 7. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit/Project name Owner Type Capacity in MW(e) Expected construction start year Expected commercial year
- - - - - -
- - - - - -