'The unit was loaded and kept stable at 60MW, making it the third of the six units at Kusile power station to be synchronised to the national grid.'
Eskom’s chief operations officer Jan Oberholzer said that Kusile's unit 3 was synchronised more than 8 months ahead of the approved target date of December 2019.The Kusile power station project near eMalahleni in Mpumalanga produced power for the first time on Sunday when unit 3 was synchronised to the grid, Eskom said on Wednesday.
Eskom said the next step would be to test and optimise the unit over several months which meant providing intermittent power to the grid, and at times possibly none. Eskom’s chief operations officer Jan Oberholzer said that unit 3 was synchronised more than 8 months ahead of the approved target date of December 2019.
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