Units one to three will be restored to service sooner than expecting, likely meaning less load-shedding, electricity minister promises.
skom will be receiving diesel on Monday from suppliers that ran short last week, which forced higher stages of load-shedding as the utility was not able to run open cycle gas turbines at levels it usually would, the group executive for generation said on Sunday.
Nxumalo was responding to a question as to whether the shortage was the result of a dispute with a supplier, or a dispute with the South African Revenue Service about Eskom’s claim for a tax rebate on diesel, which has in the past bedevilled the utility’s“It was really not about any dispute that was there with any supplier, no. It was nothing to that effect, I think it was more just the suppliers said they would be receiving from the 18th, that is what we got from our suppliers.
“It resulted in lower reserves on our tanks and also utilisations on the pump storage a bit more, which then necessitated this stage six.” “They have ramped up the rate at which they are doing the work, so we are able to say to the country that we have been able to shave a month on the return of this unit. So the expectation is that we should be able to return unit 3 by the 14th of October. The same is applicable to unit 1.”
“The only thing that is not there is just the sulphur-removal portion of the plant, but other plant areas … are still intact, so the units will return at full capacity.”
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