After serving South Africa since 1961, the coal-fired Komati Power Station in Mpumalanga has today (31 October) reached the end of its operating life and has been shut down from midday.
According to Eskom, unit 9 was commissioned in March 1966 – the last of nine units that were built. Other units were shut down over the years as they reached the end of their operating life, a legislated requirement.
Komati is one of the power stations that were previously mothballed due to the country’s excess generation capacity in the early 1980s, the age of the station and the high maintenance costs. Unit 9 was then mothballed in 1989. The group said that as part of a comprehensive Just Energy Transition Strategy – which places equal importance on the ‘transition to lower carbon technologies,’ – the remaining employees will take part in the Komati Repowering and Repurposing project.150MW of solar, 70MW of wind and 150MW of storage batteries
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