Eskom Holdings Soc Limited (South Africa)

Eskom Holdings Limited (Eskom) is a vertically integrated operation that generates, transmits and distributes electricity to industrial, mining, commercial, agricultural and residential customers and redistributors. Eskom buys electricity from and sells electricity to the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Eskom sells power directly to approximately 6 000 industrial, 18 000 commercial, 70 000 agricultural and three million residential customers. It owns and operates a number of coal-fired, gas-fired, hydro and pumped storage power stations, as well as one nuclear power station. Its 26 000 kilometers of transmission lines extend into SADC countries. The Company has five segments: Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Key Sales and Customer Services (Ksacs) and others. As of March 31, 2008, it had disposed of Mountain Kingdom Communications (Pty) Limited (MKC), the telecommunications provider in Lesotho.