About 1,500 tons tonnes of slurry in the chimney at Kusile power station has to be removed before a detailed assessment of the structural integrity can be made.
“That [is] information management can only provide once they have gone inside the chimney to do the inspection to understand the defects,” he said.three units went offline.Ramokgopa said the temporary repairs of units one, two and three are on track and could be completed by December.“We are on track to deliver on that promise. If we get these three units back, I think we would have made significant advances in the resolution of load-shedding.
“We are confident about our ability and the ability of management to deliver and we will update as we move from one stage to the other.”The construction of the new temporary stack structure will cost more than R250m and this could increase.He wouldn't rule out the possibility of higher stages of power cuts in winter but, working with Eskom, the ministry was striving to remain within “tolerable levels of load-shedding”.“I am saying this reluctantly, because load-shedding is load-shedding.
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