Matla Power Station, situated near Witbank in Mpumalanga, South Africa Consists of six 618 Megawatt units generating a potential total electricity capacity of 3000 Megawatt.

Technical details:

• Six 618MW units
• Installed capacity: 3 708MW
• 2001 capacity: 3558MW
• Design efficiency at rated turbine MCR (%): 37.80%
• Ramp rate: 33.33% per hour
• Average availability over last 3 years: 93.05%
• Average production over last 3 years: 21 572GWh

Matla Power Station Instrumentation consists of the following:

• Vibrating Wire Piezometers measuring pore pressure.
• Standpipe piezometers measuring water table.

Instruments installed are intended to monitor:

• Pore pressure build-up
• Water table

Installed Instruments Specification:

Vibrating Wire Piezometers (Pour Pressure)

• Geokon Vibrating Wire Model 4500S

Data Acquisition System (logger)

• Geokon Micro-10 Data Logger Model 8020

Standpipe Piezo (Water Table)

• Geotechnical Instrumentation Casagrande Standpipes

Designers: N/A

Consulting Engineers: N/A

Contractors: Rosherville Construction