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“The incident took place late on Aug. 8 and is suspected of having caused another unit to trip, Eskom said in a statement.”
Alec Hogg asked energy expert Chris Yelland who he felt was to blame for the problems at the all-important Medupi and Kusile power stations.
Energy expert Chris Yelland unpacks what went wrong in the latest loadshedding schedule imposed on electricity users and concludes that it is “the stuff of nightmares.”
South African business confidence increased from the lowest level in more than three decades. A sentiment index compiled by the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Eleven years after construction started on Eskom’s massive 4,800MW Kusile coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, not one of its six 800MW generator units is currently delivering power into the grid.
A veteran former Eskom power station designer has diagnosed the main problem and suggested a fix for Medupi and Kusile power stations, now several years beyond their completion dates and costing the nation more than R300bn extra.
EE Publishers Chris Yelland unpacks the cost of electricity from a power plant, whether it be coal-fired, nuclear, hydro, gas, wind or solar.
While going through Eskom’s latest financial results, what concerned Chris Yelland was the cost and time overruns at the Medupi and Kusile power stations.
Eskom national spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe responds to an article on how falling electricity production is being offset by the growing number of independent power producers.
Roman Crookes, who has been project director for the Medupi construction project from the beginning, will vacate his post at the end of January.