Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has warned that Eskom has experienced setbacks, and the power utility would not rule out load-shedding.
On Friday, Eskom said its Generation Operational Recovery Plan continues to deliver structural improvements and efficiencies to its coal fleet.
Extensive maintenance has helped to decrease unplanned outages. Last week, Eskom revealed its weekly outages averaged 12,087MW compared to 15,065MW last year.The financial year-to-date — from 1 April 2024 to 17 October 2024 — EAF is at 63.0%, a significant improvement of 7.7% compared to the same period last year.
It spent R6.00 billion to run OCGTs between 1 April and 10 October 2024, down from R18.03 billion spent last year over the same period. The 950 MW Koeberg Unit 1 will go offline in January 2025 for an unstated period for containment building overpressure and leakage testing. Eskom stated that it is unlikely to implement load-shedding during summer, from 1 September 2024 to 31 March 2025.
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