Steenbras Power Station
The Steenbras Power Station, also Steenbras Hydro Pump Station, is a 180 MW pumped-storage hydroelectric power station commissioned in 1979 in South Africa.Photo: Tadpolefarm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: power station in South Africa
- Also known as: “Steenbras Hydroelectric Power Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Harmony Flats Nature Reserve and South African Naval College.
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve
Heath
Photo: Abu Shawka, CC0.
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve is a 9-hectare piece of protected land, located between Strand and Gordon's Bay, South Africa. It protects a surviving fragment of critically endangered Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos vegetation. Harmony Flats Nature Reserve is situated 4 km west of Steenbras Power Station.
South African Naval College
College
Photo: Mario Micklisch, CC BY 2.0.
The South African Naval College provides naval officer training to the South African Navy and is one of three officer training institutions within the South African National Defence Force, the equivalent of the Air Force Gymnasium and the Army Gymnasium… South African Naval College is situated 3½ km west of Steenbras Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gordon’s Bay and Sir Lowry’s Pass Village.
Gordon’s Bay
Photo: Casperinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gordon's Bay is a suburb of greater Cape Town, and on the east side of the Strand. it is situated between False Bay and the foot of the Hottentots Holland mountain range.
Sir Lowry’s Pass Village
Village
Sir Lowry's Pass Village is a town near the base of Sir Lowry's Pass, about 60 km from Cape Town, South Africa. Sir Lowry’s Pass Village is situated 4 km north of Steenbras Power Station.
Lwandle
Suburb
Lwandle is a township in Strand, a town in the eastern part of the Cape Town Metro in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Administratively it is a suburb of the City of Cape Town. Lwandle is situated 4 km northwest of Steenbras Power Station.
Steenbras Power Station
- Categories: pumped-storage power station and industry
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.15162° or 34° 9′ 6″ southLongitude
18.89701° or 18° 53′ 49″ eastInception
1979Operator
City of Cape TownOpen location code
4FQWRVXW+9ROpenStreetMap ID
way 418863866OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q113114958
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