Upcountry visitors to Cape Town over the holiday season may have wondered why the city has less load-shedding than they’re used to.
If they arrived on the N2, they would have driven past the answer to their question: the Steenbras pumped storage hydroelectric system’s four turbines in the mountains above Gordon’s Bay can deliver up to 180MW of electricity to the city grid, enabling load-shedding to be reduced by one or two stages...
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