Article: 'Eskom build on track': Sbu Ndebele

Eskom has spent over R75.5 billion on the capital investment programme since 2005, and delivered 5031 Megawatt (MW) of new electricity generating capacity into the system, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said on Tuesday.

Briefing the media in his capacity as chairman of the infrastructure development cluster of ministries, he said the state power utility had also delivered 3051 kilometres of high voltage transmission lines to transport electricity across the country.
 
rpm said:
Eskom has spent over R75.5 billion on the capital investment programme since 2005, and delivered 5031 Megawatt (MW) of new electricity generating capacity into the system, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said on Tuesday.

Briefing the media in his capacity as chairman of the infrastructure development cluster of ministries, he said the state power utility had also delivered 3051 kilometres of high voltage transmission lines to transport electricity across the country.
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Were these not old power stations that were mothballed and have been re-commissioned? Have any new plants actually been completed?
 
Garyvdh said:
Were these not old power stations that were mothballed and have been re-commissioned? Have any new plants actually been completed?
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The new power stations, Medupi and Kusile, are still being built (Interestingly, Medupi will be the worlds largest coal-fired power plant when finished)
 
JStrike said:
The new power stations, Medupi and Kusile, are still being built (Interestingly, Medupi will be the worlds largest coal-fired power plant when finished)
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Where are all the Nuke power sttions we need? any being built?
 
JStrike said:
The new power stations, Medupi and Kusile, are still being built (Interestingly, Medupi will be the worlds largest coal-fired power plant when finished)
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Ja, that's what I thought. So taking credit for bringing "new capacity" onto the grid is not technically correct. :)

Nice double speak there on the part of the Minister.
 
New capacity has been brought on stream with the likes of Gas stations, mothballed stations returned to service and other renewable energies.
 
Why the hell did they mothball these power stations in the first place?
 
manesan said:
Why the hell did they mothball these power stations in the first place?
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Camden, Grootvlei and Komati were mothballed due to excess capacity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. What is of interest is in 1991/2, the peak demand had already increased by 2000 MW. Since 1991, there has been a sharp increase in peak demand while operational capacity hasn't increased much. In high-sight, they probably should not have mothballed the power stations.

It is reported that in late 80's, Eskom scaled back demand growth projections. Construction of generation sets was delayed and plans for new power stations were cancelled. Maybe the financial crises from 80's to early 90's contributed to those decisions.
 
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