Medupi Unit 4 will cost R2.5 billion to fix - Eskom estimates Aug 2024 return to service

[Jan]

Medupi explosion will cost Eskom R2.5 billion and take years to fix

An investigation into the cause of the blast that damaged the Unit 4 generator at the Medupi coal power plant is close to completion, and it will cost R2.5 billion to repair.

This is according to Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter, who added that findings point towards non-compliance by Eskom staff members.

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

Guess we're just gonna have to fork out more ****ing money so they can steal that too.
That and there will be no accountability

VIVA ANC and all their corrupt cadres! Bunch of clowns

 

[pinball wizard]

Half a billion on the repairs and 2 billion into cadres pockets.

 

[Lupus]

Already taken years to deploy.

 

[labratza]

So Now MYBB can forcast the future as well....

Can they please let me know what the next set of lotto numbers will be

 

[_TrXtR_]

Wasn't that the timeline and cost for it's original development?

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

50 bux says it will be up and running in June 2025

 

[donal]

Fairly obvious mistake in that headline:
'... will cost Eskom us taxpayers R2.5 billion to fix...'

 

[Tman543]

Great, No consequences for the eskom staff for incompetence that causes Billions damages yet want 20% increase for electricity every year. Voets*k man.

 

[ADrunkTeddyBear]

50 bux says it will be up and running in June 2025

Yall still betting on this decade lol?

 

[zoozi]

Pay the guy who dropped the extension cord on the unit!
He is a businessman and loyal cadre, excellent at setting up deals, just 1 extension cord for a R2.5 billion repair, he deserves his fair share.

 

[rietrot]

Multiple more than what the entire power plant was supposed to cost, just to fix one broken unit.

This is getting silly.

 

[NeoZA]

cost eskom billions, you mean tax payers again with the amazing 20% increase

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Tendas arent free comrades, we need loads of KFC and BMWs before we can think of picking up the mess.

 

[supersunbird]

“Following the power station preliminary investigation, it appears that while performing this activity, air was introduced into the generator at a point where hydrogen was still present in the generator at sufficient quantities to create an explosive mixture, which ignited and resulted in the explosion,” the power utility stated.

“It also appears that there was a deviation from the procedure for carrying out this activity.”

I hope they were fired.

 

[Napalm2880]

I hope they were fired.

My understanding of how this works is that after their disciplinary hearings they were re-deployed elsewhere, probably with a pay increase.

 

[GhostSixFour]

Wait, they were trying to displace Hydrogen with CO2? Wouldn't opening a valve let the H dissipate all on it's own? Surely dumping CO2 over it will just let the CO2 settle underneath the H? How would using CO2 and air show a leakage? Surely a more exotic gas is easier to detect?

 

[Takkies]

Medupi explosion will cost Eskom R2.5 billion and take years to fix

An investigation into the cause of the blast that damaged the Unit 4 generator at the Medupi coal power plant is close to completion, and it will cost R2.5 billion to repair.

This is according to Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter, who added that findings point towards non-compliance by Eskom staff members.

Is it obvious yet? The staff are obviously underqualified and incompetent.
This is the REAL cost of BEE.

 

[Randux]

Medupi explosion will cost Eskom R2.5 billion and take years to fix

Of course

 

[ConfusedR]

Of course it will.
It will take years and years and years and years and years.....
And will go over budget many times....bla bla bla
And then strikes.

And I'm just going to put this here. Not the same as an electrical plant but the concept of budgeting, planning and project time-lines are still the same.

How a R300-million Afrikaans college was built under budget and ahead of schedule

Not even political interference and the COVID-19 pandemic could prevent Solidarity from completing an impressive new R300-million campus ahead of schedule and under budget.

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