Exiting generation executive Rhulani Mathebula details the long list of issues hitting Eskom.
Eskom generation executive Rhulani Mathebula revealed that fraud, corruption, funding constraints, poor planning, and shoddy work is crushing the power utility.
It is designed to provide a roadmap to analyse and act upon the root causes of equipment failures to ensure reliability. It raises the question of why it did not work and what undermined the efforts to improve Eskom’s performance. The problems include people stealing coal and diesel, damaging plants to get maintenance contracts, and delivering the wrong spares and equipment.
Mathebula highlighted that around 75% of the unavailable generating units are offline because of unplanned maintenance and breakdowns. The lack of maintenance results in higher breakdowns and a lower energy availability factor , which in turn causes more capacity constraints. “We have a situation where Eskom is paying three, four, or even ten times the price it is supposed to pay,” he said.
“In the recent past, Eskom has not been able to achieve that. One of the contributing factors is that the planning of the maintenance programme has not been executed properly,” he said.A lack of planning and using bad service providers have resulted in poor-quality maintenance and unplanned breakdowns.
Because it is not done, it is challenging to weed out poor contractors and hold employees accountable.There has been a huge exodus of operators because they have reached retirement age or left in search of better opportunities. “It is one skill Eskom cannot afford to lose,” Mathebula said.
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