South Africa’s electricity minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has announced that Eskom does not have the necessary electricity generation capacity to prevent the country from going into stage 8 loadshedding this winter:
due to the rising electricity demand caused by the cold winter weather. The country’s likelihood of being plunged into stage 8 loadshedding grows if unplanned breakdowns reach 18 000MW and an additional 4 000MW is taken offline for maintenance purposes.
The Kusile Power Station is one of Eskom’s two recently built power stations, comprising six coal-fired generating units, each with a capacity of 800MW, resulting in a total generating capacity of 4 800MW. Unfortunately, the station has encountered persistent design flaws, necessitating an additional expenditure of R14 billion to complete the construction.
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