The presidency says South Africa is moving quickly from a centrally planned energy system to a decentralised, liberalised electricity market.
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Eskom has said that repairing damage to a flue gas duct at the still-unfinished Kusile power station could take months.
The Kusile power station in Mpumalanga will burn as much as 15 million tons of coal a year until it is eventually shut down in 2073.
The R135-billion Medupi power plant won’t ever make a profit because of delays, design defects and increasing opposition to coal-fired electricity generation, one of its funders said.
Eskom has completed unit 4 at the Kusile power station, the long-delayed coal-fired power station, with the unit handed over to the company’s generation division on Tuesday.
A warrant of arrest has been issued for former Eskom executive France Hlakudi following his failure to appear in court to answer to a corruption case.
Eskom expects the consumer to pay for the long-term damage of its bungling of the Medupi and Kusile power station projects, says the Association of South African Chambers.
Unit 4 at the Kusile power station has been synchronised to the national grid for the first time, which should help to alleviate pressure on the system into 2022.
Eskom said on Wednesday that it has added up to 800MW of supply to the national grid after unit 3 at the Kusile power station was brought online this week.
Police arrested two senior ex-managers at Eskom and a number of other suspects over allegations of fraud, corruption and money laundering at the Kusile power plant.