Eskom has been ordered to pay French firm Framatome R950 million.
Embattled power utility Eskom has been given a R950 million penalty due to delays in planned maintenance at the Koeberg nuclear power station., two independent sources at Eskom said that an adjudication ruling made last week awarded French Firm Framatome R950 million due to Eskom postponing planned work during a maintenance outage that began last year.
“There are now over 100 active contractual disputes between Eskom and Framatome, with a single one of them with a value of approximately R1 billion,” former board member of the National Nuclear Regulator Peter Becker said.Eskom said that the refurbishment cost would total roughly R20 billion, however, Virtual Energy and Power director Clyde Mallinson said that this estimate was done in 2020, with the revised cost likely being between R40 and R70 billion.
Koeberg’s unit 1 produces 920MW and reduces load shedding by roughly one stage, however, a delay in replacing a steam generator is adding to daily power cuts., the return to service of unit 1 of the nuclear power station has a new target date of 13 September, which is roughly three months after it was supposed to be completed.
Earlier this month, Mallinson said that South Africans will face a cold, dark winter if Eskom could not lift its coal power fleet’s capacity factor to 50%, which would help fight the higher stages of load shedding in winter. South Africa is expected to see upwards of stage 6 load shedding during June if Eskom cannot increase its coal power fleet’s capacity factor .If this performance continued in June, Eskom would have to push load shedding to stage 11, a level that does not currently exist.
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