Eskom generated a surplus of energy at the weekend and the future of the utility looks incredibly hopeful.
At the weekend Eskom was actually generating nearly 3 600MW of surplus energy.The energy crisis is expected to be improved further with Koeberg Unit 1 expected to come online by the end of this month.“Due to the continued improved generation fleet performance and emergency reserves fully recovered, loadsheding will remain suspended and only resume on Tuesday at 16:00,” Eskom posted on X.
As the utility mentioned, generation capacity has improved, but in addition, demand has dropped significantly as well. On Friday evening, South Africa drew 26 709MW with Eskom generating 29 427MW. This gave the utility 2 718MW of headroom. One of the reasons Eskom has likely been able to maintain this headroom is that Unit 3 at Kusile is back online and Eskom intends to generate a total of 3 200MW at the power station by the end of the year.On Friday Eskom said that steam generators at Unit 1 have been successfully replaced and the nuclear power generator was expected to be synchronised to the grid by the end of this month.
“The process required numerous tests of the safety systems, with more tests still to be performed before and after the start-up of the nuclear reaction. The completion of the commissioning tests will end a long but safe, steam generator replacement journey and signal the return of Unit 1 to commercial operation,” it added.
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