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23. Koeberg Nuclear Power Station is South ◊ Below: Koeberg Nuclear Power Station
Africa’s and Africa’s only nuclear electricity generator ◊ Bottom: Palmiet Pumped Storage Scheme
and produces 1 800 MW at its peak. This facility is close
to the sea at Duynefontein north of Cape Town and
the high quality concrete structures can be seen from
afar. It has steadily produced electricity for almost 30
years.

33°40’28.34” S, 18°25’58.69” E

24. Palmiet pumped storage scheme not only
transfers water from the Palmiet River to the Steenbras
Dam feeding Cape Town, but in times of peak demand
in electricity it generates 400 MW of power and acts as
a hydroelectric power station. Since 1988 it has been
known to be an environmentally sound project situated
within the Cape Fynbos kingdom that contains 1 600 25. Mossgas near Mossel Bay is a PetroSA facility
species of plants – civil engineering and the natural en- that has a host of innovative civil engineering features.
vironment side by side. The regional waste handling facility for towns as far
away as Knysna is one where waste is compacted into
containers and then transported by road to Mossel Bay
34°12’39.49” S, 18°58’29.06” E because the narrow gauge railway has been closed at
Wilderness due to landslides.

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