A sustained maintenance drive has brought units at Medupi and Kusile back online, bolstering Eskom’s energy availability factor.
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The country needs to build and fund a R390-billion expansion of the national grid so it can connect more power plants.
Eskom has synchronised unit 5 of Kusile to the grid, with the development expected to help ease power constraints.
After a rough workweek of load shedding – much of it at stage 6 – Eskom is promising an improved outlook for the week ahead.
Imagine if you could build a Medupi’s worth of new electricity generation without spending a cent of public money.
Eskom has been given permission to bypass pollution abatement equipment at its giant Kusile plant.
A plan to split Eskom into three units envisions most of the company’s R439-billion debt being allocated to generation.
The presidency says South Africa is moving quickly from a centrally planned energy system to a decentralised, liberalised electricity market.
Eskom has said that repairing damage to a flue gas duct at the still-unfinished Kusile power station could take months.
The Kusile power station in Mpumalanga will burn as much as 15 million tons of coal a year until it is eventually shut down in 2073.