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.
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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.
Eleven years after construction started on Eskom’s massive 4.8GW Kusile coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, not one of its six 800MW generator units is currently delivering power into the grid.
Two new coal-fired power plants being built in South Africa are “badly designed and badly constructed”, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday.
Eskom is facing a mounting repair bill at two new coal-fired power stations that are still under construction, compounding its already dire financial situation.