By Saturday, we will have endured an entire month of continuous load shedding. READ📲
Eskom was plunged into a fresh crisis just before 18:00 on Tuesday when a generation unit each at Kendal and Lethabo power stations tripped. This necessitated the immediate implementation of Stage 4 load shedding from 18:00.It provided no further information, save that it would “publish a full statement [on Wednesday] afternoon”. That it will take nearly a day to provide additional detail shows how dire the emergency at the utility is.
A back-of-the-matchbox calculation puts the impact of this latest ‘streak’ of nearly a month at over R70 billion.The trip at Lethabo is especially concerning as this power station has historically been one of the best-performing in the fleet. In the last financial year , Lethabo was responsible for the fourth-lowest average megawatt loss across Eskom’s coal power stations.
The OCGTs operated by independent producers at Avon and Dedisa have had their own diesel supply issues. Until some marginal contribution on Monday , the last time they fed a single megawatt into the grid was on Thursday .At least Koeberg Unit 2 is back on the grid and stable, which provides 900MW of capacity – equivalent to one stage of load shedding. It finally returned to service last week much later than planned .
Originally, this same work was supposed to be done on Unit 2 when it was shut down for refuelling in January.
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