Eskom on Saturday synchronised Unit 3 of the Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme.<\/p>\n
Unit 3 at Ingula, which is located on the cross-border of the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal, is the final unit to be synchronised.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Sunday, Eskom said Unit 3 was previously synchronised to the national grid on 6 March 2016 and supported the grid until 6 April 2016 when an electrical incident occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter almost 500 000 man-hours of work without any safety incidents the team completed the repair and has synchronised the unit back onto the national grid,\u201d said the power utility.<\/p>\n
Synchronisation is the process whereby the generator in the unit is electrically connected to the national power grid in such a way that its power is perfectly aligned with all the other generators to generate and deliver electricity into the national power grid.<\/p>\n
Ingula\u2019s Unit 4 went into commercial operation on 10 June 2016 while Units 2 and 1 were been put into commercial operation on the 22 August 2016 and 30 August 2016 respectively.<\/p>\n
Ingula\u2019s four units are located 350 m underground in the world\u2019s largest machine hall in mud-rock.<\/p>\n
To turn the more than 500 ton rotating mass of the generator rotor and turbine, water is released from Ingula\u2019s upper dam, Bedford Dam, situated 460 m higher and two kilometres away.<\/p>\n
Water rushes down to the turbines at around 60km per hour with enough water passing through each turbine to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in six seconds. Rotating at 428 revolutions per minute, each unit will produce 333 MW, a total for the station of 1 332MW.<\/p>\n
Upon completion Ingula will be Africa\u2019s newest and largest pumped storage scheme and the 14th largest in the world.<\/p>\n
President Jacob Zuma visited the plant in July where he said progress made is evidence of the country\u2019s democratic legacy that supports economic growth and development.<\/p>\n
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