JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider Eskom shared its Transmission Development Plan (TDP) for the period 2020 to 2029, announcing major expansion of transmission infrastructure and transformation capacity in the next ten years.

In the next decade, Eskom plans to increase its transmission infrastructure by approximately 4,800 km of extra high voltage transmission lines and 35,000 MVA of transformer capacity, the company stated n the press release.

According to Segomoco Scheppers, Group Executive for Transmission, this year alone the company commissioned approximately 379 km of lines and 540 MVA of transformation capacity.

Significant progress has also been made in the establishment of a transmission network to enable the successful connection of additional generation from Medupi and Kusile power plants to the national grid.

Source: Eskom