Electricity Minister says closing Komati Power Station for renewable energy was a bad idea Read more 👇Eskom Loadshedding
“We closed a power station which was the best-performing station at the time and because someone gave us money and said decarbonise it,” said Ramakgopa.
He added that if it were up to him, he would get the power station up and running again to help with the loadshedding crisis.cited the reason being the age of the power station. Komati had been operational for 62 years. Eskom said closing down the power station would have little impact on the national grid.Ramakgopa stated his case by saying that, the nine generating units at Komati contributed 1000MW to the grid while the renewable energy it was replaced with only provides 270MW to the grid.
The renewable energy generation site provides 150MW of solar, 70MW of wind and 150MW of storage batteries through a concessional loan facility from theRamakgopa expressed the economic impact of decommissioning Komati, saying that 1000MW would help reduce one stage of loadshedding and help businesses thrive.through, it also has a responsibility to citizens and their livelihoods.
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