Electricity minister Kgosientso Ramokgopa reported a slight improvement in the national grid following a week of severe load shedding
reported a slight improvement in the national grid following a week of severe load shedding.
Ramokgopa gave update on the implementation of the Energy Action Plan on Sunday after a week of stage 5 and 6 power cuts. The electricity minister also confirmed the return of Unit 4 at Kusile power station on Sunday morning that was put on planned maintenance.“This milestone means generating capacity will be ramped up by 800MW into the grid, resulting in the reduction of one stage of Load shedding.”“When we opened the week on Monday the 11of September, the available capacity was sitting at 26 332MW and as we closed the week, this period that I am assessing we are sitting at 27 760MW.
“And we know when we enter the summer period, it could be a function of ambient temperature. The more hot it gets, the more difficult it is for some of these units to perform and of course Matimba is a prime candidate of partial load losses that are likely going to increase as you go into the more extreme hot periods of the year,” Ramokgopa said.“It is something that is receiving attention to ensure that we don’t fall foul to such a situation.
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