The station was built on eight hectares of land bordered by South Coast Road on the east and the M4 South on the west. Bayhead Road bounds it on the north.
Durban - Our pictures of old Durban this week take in the Congella Power Station which supplied the city’s power needs for 50 years.
The Congella Power Station was commissioned in July 1928 and had an initial capacity of 24MW, extended to 98MW by 1938. Before the outbreak of WWII, it was decided to build Congella 2 on the same site. Congella 2 is on the left. Municipal electricity in Durban was established with a power station at Bamboo Square, Point, with electric lighting switched on for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in June 1897. The station was extended in 1908, and 1912.
As the city developed, complaints about coal and ash deposits increased, so in 1946 work was begun on two 92m concrete and brick chimneys to take the outlet gases from the No.1 boiler house. Fred Rogers, who worked at the station, described the scene. “At the height of the flood, water was entering the power station in waves. It flooded into the entrances, underground basements and tunnels. Water entered the boiler furnaces via the ashing doors where it erupted into steam, necessitating the shutting-down of the boilers. The power station had drowned.”
Congella Power Station was also flooded on December 29, 1977 when a severe storm caused the Umbilo River canal to burst its banks.
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