Power utility Eskom has warned that unit 1 of its troubled Kusile power station will be down for months following a critical failure.
On 23 October 2022, a section of the Kusile Unit 1 operation failed while it was offline for repairs, Eskom said.
and this duration shall become clearer over the next few weeks. Access to the area has also been restricted as part of precautionary measures,” Eskom said. Unit 2 was off load at the time while Unit 3 was generating electricity. Unit 4, whose FGD duct is housed on a separate flue chimney, is currently on load generating full load to the national grid, it said.
2022 has been the worst year for load shedding on record in terms of duration and in terms of the highest stages reached. On 17 September 2022, Eskom said it experienced a fire in the gas air heater of Unit 5 of Kusile during a commissioning exercise. The utility noted that a similar fire in Unit 2 happened a few years ago, which resulted in a 12-month delay. Because of this, the group said that it would likely only get Unit 5 online by December 2024.The new builds have suffered many delays – they are still not 100% complete – and have blown past their initial budgets by billions of rands..
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