Between March and June 2025, Eskom will have to make do without some of the Kusile units that contributed significantly to the end of load-shedding.
The critical repairs of three units at Eskom’s Kusile power station, which played a huge role in reducing load-shedding in 2024, have been delayed.
Eskom was forced to take the units offline after a part of the flue-gas desulphurisation duct collapsed due to an internal build-up of concrete-like sludge caused by design defects and poor management. Cognisant of Eskom’s severe generation challenges, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment granted Eskom an exemption which would allow using the stacks until the end of March 2025.
Kusile Power Station with the three temporary stacks for Unit 1, 2 and 3 between the two larger FGD chimneysThe emissions exemption is set to expire in about two months. After 31 March 2025, Eskom will no longer be allowed to use the temporary stacks to run the units.for a timeline of the FGD repairs, it was optimistic it would have brought all the units back onto the system by the deadline.The power utility said this process would take 46 days, from 28 November 2024 to 12 January 2025.
Unit 1 would have been shut down from 21 March to 13 June 2025. In its more recent feedback, Eskom said Unit 1’s switchover would last from late March to June.
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