Ramping up production in South Africa’s coal mining industry could spell disaster for the longest load-shedding break South Africa has experienced since 2021.
“My personal view is that half of the reason we don’t have load shedding is because the mining sector is in a deep recession,” EWNLoad-shedding has been suspended in South Africa for 92 days and counting. He also believed there was a strong chance of load-shedding returning this winter, indicating that short-term solutions were implemented to improve South Africa’s energy situation before the elections in May 2024.
“We do unfortunately see units coming offline as there’re catastrophic failures within the power stations due to them being run hard and being quite old,” added Cruise.However, at face value, Eskom has performed a miracle, achieving significant EAF improvements in 2024. The state-owned power utility expects a further 2,500MW of generation capacity to return to service by the end of 2024, which should have a marked impact on the EAF figure.Kusile Unit 5 will be fully commercially operational by the end of June 2024, bringing its contribution to the grid to 800MW.Koeberg Unit 2 will return to service by the end of September 2024, returning 940MW to the grid.
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