A Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… Simmerpan, Germiston. [37] Further growth in demand in the 1970s meant that ESCOM built new power stations, most of … Arnot (which still supply electricity today). [38] In the 1970s, electricity was in huge demand domestically (as … price shot up. The coal industry thus exported from the 1970s, drawing from increasingly large coal reserves …