Eskom to ease load-shedding to stage three by the weekend - The search is still on for a replacement for outgoing CEO Andre de Ruyter, board member Mteto Nyati says.
from the current stage five to stage four on Friday and stage three by Saturday, the power utility said on Thursday.
Eskom’s head of generation Thomas Conradie told a media briefing that this was due to several generating units which had broken down, coming back online, as well as anticipated low demand over the weekend. The units set to return to service on Friday are Majuba in Mpumalanga and Lethabo in the Free State.
Eskom board member Mteto Nyati said the Koeberg and Kusile power stations were being given priority at the moment. Koeberg’s unit 1 is offline for planned maintenance while three units at Kusile are down due to forced outages. Eskom only expects to return the units to service approximately a year from now, Nyati said.to run its open-cycle gas turbines, telling journalists: “We cannot afford to be running out of funds for diesel during this period.
, who is due to step down at the end of March after resigning late last year, was still underway. Proposed candidates would be identified in two weeks and would thereafter be shortlisted, he added.“Eskom never really needed a COO and especially now with the
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