Kusile Unit 5 synchronised to grid for first time

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Kusile Unit 5 synchronised to grid for first time

Eskom synchronised Unit 5 of the Kusile Power Station to the national grid for the first time at 17:22 on Sunday, 31 December 2023. The unit will contribute an additional 800MW to the country's power system.

Unlike the three Kusile units returned to service over the past few months, this power has never been part of Eskom's capacity.
 
Didn't China build a hospital in Wuhan in like 6 days? Or something ridiculous?

Takes our lot 6 days to fix a broken traffic light.

Any wonder unit 5 is 10 years late?
 
sand_man said:
Didn't China build a hospital in Wuhan in like 6 days? Or something ridiculous?

Takes our lot 6 days to fix a broken traffic light.

Any wonder unit 5 is 10 years late?
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That's why they are our friend, we can learn a lot from them, yet people throw baby sized tantrums because of our closeness to China.

Sometimes I don't know what South Africans want, they will moan about everything.
 
TheChamp said:
That's why they are our friend, we can learn a lot from them, yet people throw baby sized tantrums because of our closeness to China.

Sometimes I don't know what South Africans want, they will moan about everything.
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“Friend”. That’s optimistic. They’ll own you in a few years time when you can’t pay back the billions they’ve lent you.
 
TheChamp said:
That's why they are our friend, we can learn a lot from them, yet people throw baby sized tantrums because of our closeness to China.

Sometimes I don't know what South Africans want, they will moan about everything.
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As I recall the Gupta's from India were also our "friends".
We moan about the ANC stealing.
 
Well done. Hopefully this can remain online regularly and give full capacity. It is almost a whole stage reduction.

Is the release schedule till the next one still 10 months apart? Oh I see it is schedule for August.

Would be nice if mybb or any other news agency could have an article with the status of all the units currently synchronised and those that will come online soon and those that are offline/in repair.

So if I read the article correctly there should be an additional 2400 MW at the end of the year (this one and an additional 2 units).

That plus the repaired 3 units should help significantly.
 
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