Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa faces increasing loadshedding worries as Koeberg 1 will be offline until at least September. Moneyweb Eskom
When newly appointed Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa recently disclosed that Unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear power station will return to service 45 days after the latest deadline of 23 July, he was putting it mildly. The new target date of 13 September is a full 90 days after the original date of 8 June, when the 180-day outage was supposed to end. This means the project team is overshooting its deadline by 50% and extending it to 270 days.
Cabinet reshuffle: Kgosientsho Ramokgopa in electricity hot seat Apart from the fact that the unit’s precious 920 megawatts of generation capacity will be unavailable during the cold winter months when demand increases – thereby adding about one stage of load shedding – it leaves a very tight window for completion of the similar steam generator replacement in the other unit before the expiry of Koeberg’s licence in mid-2024.
SA in talks on new nuclear-fuel deal with Westinghouse The source told Moneyweb that this kind of project, which has often been done elsewhere in the world but is a first for Eskom, is usually done in a turnkey format. Eskom however chose to manage it themselves. The result is regular interference by Eskom. He says in other countries similar projects are completed within 90 days.
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