Eskom says that it has seen a massive turn in its plant performance – which should set South Africa up for an easier winter.
Power utility Eskom says that a massive turn in unplanned outages—plant breakdowns—is to thank for its sustained suspension of load shedding in the country.
Opposition parties and some energy experts had posited that Eskom’s stronger performance over the past few months was an election ploy, and that the utility was actually burning through more diesel to achieve this. However, Eskom denied that this was the case. It said that, as the reliability of the generation fleet improves, “opportunistic windows” will taken for some short-term maintenance, “given the recent excess supply in relation to demand, which will further benefit our operational recovery as we get into the winter period”.
Eskom’s generation performance has also benefitted from the re-introduction of three units at Kusile power station to the grid. However, this has only been possible due to a temporary bypass mechanism that will have to eventually be replaced.
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