Eskom adds fourth Kusile unit to the grid

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Eskom adds fourth Kusile unit to the grid

Power utility Eskom has announced that a fourth generating unit at its Kusile coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga has been synchronised to the national electricity grid, helping to ease generating capacity constraints.

Unit 4 at Kusile was connected to the grid for the first time on 23 December 2021.

Eskom said the unit would supply electricity intermittently during a testing and optimisation phase over the next six months before being handed over to the utility's Generation division for official commissioning into the fleet.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

sabotage in 3....2...1....
those contractors have to get paid somehow, those Big Idiot Money waster BMW's dont pay themselves!

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Will this relieve the Koeberg shortfall of the next 9 month?

 

[genetic]

sabotage in 3....2...1....
those contractors have to get paid somehow, those Big Idiot Money waster BMW's dont pay themselves!

Do you just post kark all day?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Do you just post kark all day?

the ignore button is right there....
I litrally dont give a Sh*t what you think!

 

[borro]

Tell us about it.

 

[Lupus]

Will this relieve the Koeberg shortfall of the next 9 month?

Actually should, but they will only be using it intermittently over the next 6 months.

 

[FiestaST]

Damn @eg2505 getting aggressive these days.

Been a rough year bro?

 

[genetic]

Will this relieve the Koeberg shortfall of the next 9 month?

It should definitely do. 800MW is just shy of one of Koeberg's 960MW generators.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

So no more load shedding ever again?

 

[Lupus]

So no more load shedding ever again?

Bwahahaha

 

[Rickster]

/inb4 one of the other units "breakdown".

 

[semaphore]

Damn @eg2505 getting aggressive these days.

Been a rough year bro?

He’s angry that they not destroying the coast line.

 

[PAYBACK]

Keep testing. Don't EVER hand it over to those DOLTS running that clown show!

 

[genetic]

Keep testing. Don't EVER hand it over to those DOLTS running that clown show!

So you're saying don't hand over the unit to production?

 

[maxxis]

Damn @eg2505 getting aggressive these days.

Been a rough year bro?

His work forces him to use a real phone.

 

[genetic]

His work forces him to use a phone.

FTFY.

 

[system32]

Glad to see the WFGD is implemented, unlike Medupi where Eskom took world bank loan for WFGD and "diverted" the money as it's OK to use the air we breathe as a dumpster.

 

[PAYBACK]

So you're saying don't hand over the unit to production?

No I'm saying keep testing past the 6 month period maybe it will last longer in capable hands.

 

[joshuatree]

Just waiting for the City of Cape Town to start doing their own thing, and the Western Cape for that matter. Can just as well pay the City, rather than going down the rabbit hole with batteries & solar.