Kusile Unit 5 synchronised to grid for first time

It is also the country’s first to use wet flue gas desulphurisation (WFGD) abatement technology to remove sulphur dioxide from emissions to ensure compliance with international air quality standards.
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Yeah....ok....riiiight.
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Valerion said:
I will leave this here.

Debt-trap diplomacy - Wikipedia

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The body of Wikipedia article states:
However, many professionals and think tanks have stated that China's lending practices are not behind the debt troubles faced by borrowing nations, and that Chinese banks have never seized an asset from any nation, and are willing to restructure the terms of existing loans
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a deeper look into the evidence showed that the accusations towards China on doing debt-trap diplomacy in the continent, was "unfounded".[6] The Economist investigation found that China, although a big lender, accounted for fewer shares of loans compared to the World Bank and commercial loans. No evidence of predatory lending practices was found
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phoneJunky said:
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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Actually unit 5 merely synchronised with the grid yesterday. It takes a minimum of a few months before adding rated power and then only if it passes all the tests.
 
It is also the country’s first to use wet flue gas desulphurisation (WFGD) abatement technology to remove sulphur dioxide from emissions to ensure compliance with international air quality standards.
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Isn't this the very process that has been bypassed - ie that SO2 is currently poisoning the lungs and throats of children in the vicinity of Kusile.
 
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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To be fair that was just containers they put together. But Solidariteit built a university in less than 2 years and ahead of schedule. They should have just let them build power stations. Here in Boksburg or Alberton somewhere they're still busy building a police station for the last 6 years or so.
 
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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"Our friends" are not teaching fast enough or the students are just useless, lazy, pathetic and corrupt.
Proof.....
It took the students 15 years to boil water

Maybe "our friends" should also teach them that building a public toilet that falls apart in 2 weeks, is not an achievement
 
Chris.Geerdts said:
Actually unit 5 merely synchronised with the grid yesterday. It takes a minimum of a few months before adding rated power and then only if it passes all the tests.
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If it synchronised it's providing power. But it's not "officially" added because it may be taken offline intermittently and at short notice. So a lot like Eskom's whole fleet.

Chris.Geerdts said:
Isn't this the very process that has been bypassed - ie that SO2 is currently poisoning the lungs and throats of children in the vicinity of Kusile.
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Still a lot less than the world standard even without the desulphurisation.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
wait till demand spikes, or wait till something new breaks and causes havoc.
thinking this is the end of load shedding is a mistake.

were only getting started.
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Even when it delivers full power this one unit will not even reduce it by a full stage.

This is one step out of many that will be needed. It is still going to take a while
 
Swa said:
If it synchronised it's providing power. But it's not "officially" added because it may be taken offline intermittently and at short notice. So a lot like Eskom's whole fleet.
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Yes, well best case scenario no major issues arise between now and the unit going commercial and it does spend most of the next phase running at significant capacity.
 
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