Swaziland: Generation ambitions

The Swazi government is looking to more than double its electricity generation capacity with a planned 300MW coal-fired power station. Demand in the mountain kingdom is put at 225MW, which is mainly supplied from imports from South Africa’s Eskom and 60.1MW of installed hydroelectric capacity (currently used for peaking). The sugar industry has 105MW cogeneration capacity; a small proportion of this goes into Swaziland Electricity Company’s grid from Ubombo Sugar. However, the government projects a rise in capacity from mining and other developments.