Reduced summer demand and Kusile power station unit coming online relieve pressure on Eskom to implement load shedding.
Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reckons Eskom is ‘turning the corner’ in addressing the country’s load shedding crisis with the restoration of units at the Kusile power station to service. Photo: Nigel Sibanda
In the past year, private citizens and businesses have invested in solar capacity which total one-tenth of the current available capacity of the entire grid.News today: Eskom ‘turning a corner’, BELA Bill ‘not attacking Afrikaans’, Transnet wants skilled staff to return “I indicated in our last briefing that the units are going to be indispensable to the resolution of this problem and in the short term, will help us to reduce the intensity of load shedding,” said Ramokgopa.were offline because of issues associated with the standard flue-gas desulphurisation units. With the failure of the engineering component meant to reduce the amount of sulphur emitted into the atmosphere, Eskom had to discontinue units one, two and three at Kusile in October last year.
The restoration of the FGD at Kusile would still take time as there were a number of issues which required attention.
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