Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is confident that two units at 'perennial underperformer' Tutuka power station will come back onstream in September.
Emissions rise from the cooling towers of the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Tutuka coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019.Ramokgopa is confident that two units at"perennial underperformer" Tutuka power station will come back onstream in September.
This comes as the plant got a helping hand from the Resource Mobilisation Fund - a vehicle launched by Business for South Africa earlier this year to support the rollout of president Cyril Ramaphosa's Energy Action Plan. "This is a big power station in that you have six installed units that should be generating about […] 3 500 MW," he said, adding that this was Eskom's "most pristine, best opportunity to add megawatts".
"There is about 2500 MW locked into Tutuka. That enables us to deliver a significant dent on load shedding – about two stages. The team is doing everything possible to address this situation," he said."There is a plan to return a number of units to service," Ramokgopa said."[But] that plan has to be robust. On three or four occasions there had been plans to return these units to service, and we have not been able to [do so].
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