Eskom makes way for renewables as 60-year-old Komati power station is shut down - The facility will produce wind and solar energy and employees, who will keep their jobs, will be reskilled to work in the clean energy sector
The power utility said the facility will be transformed into a wind and solar energy production site. “After serving South Africa since 1961, the coal-fired Komati power station has today reached the end of its operating life and has been shut down from midday,” it said in a statement.
The power utility said a micro-grid assembly factory has already been established on the site. It has also given assurances that workers will be reskilled to work in the renewable energy sector.According to the statement, this is part of the comprehensive Just Energy Transition Strategy “which places equal importance on the ‘transition to lower carbon technologies’ and the ability to do so in a manner that is ‘just’ and sustainable.
Eskom said Komati had previously been mothballed because of the country’s excess generation capacity in the early 1980s, as well as its age and the high maintenance costs. The utility is set to receive a large portion of the $8.5-billion pledged at the United Nations COP26 climate change conference held in Glasgow late last year. European governments pledged the money for South Africa’s Just Energy Transition programme. This commitment built on an earlier Eskom proposal to launch a $9-billion sustainability-linked loan.the Komati power station.
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