Two former Eskom chief executives, Matshela Koko and Andre de Ruyter, express their views on load-shedding in South Africa and highlight the issues with infrastructure maintenance and lack of understanding of engineering risks within Eskom.
Two former Eskom chief executives, Matshela Koko and Andre de Ruyter, have independently said South Africans should not suffer through load-shedding. In a column, Engineering Risk Assessments and Why South Africans Do Not Deserve Load-shedding (see full column below), Koko shared his views on continued power cuts . Koko said the condition of South Africa’s infrastructure, including the low voltage networks and power generation plants, suggests there is a severe problem with maintenance.
He said one of the main problems is that Eskom’s executive committee and board don’t have a solid appreciation of Eskom’s engineering risks and plant conditions today. “This is why the unplanned capability loss factor post-unit outages is 34%. It should be less than 10%,” Koko said.Isabel Fick, Eskom’s general manager for system operations, revealed that variability over the rest of the network is about 4,000 MW. “It means the load-shedding prognosis in the next 24 hours ranges from no load-shedding up to four stages of load-shedding,” Koko sai
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