Medupi and Kusile: Costly and faulty | Business | M&G

Load-shedding may extend into the coming weeks, according to Eskom’s own forecasts, because the utility faces a confluence of factors that have again plunged the country into regular rounds of darkness.

Instead, the power stations are years behind on their completion dates and costs have increased exponentially since they were first announced. In addition, despite being the newest members of Eskom’s fleet, the stations are not performing as expected, achieving only 40% reliability, according to the department of public enterprises.

On Monday, Eskom unexpectedly increased the intensity of nation-wide power cuts from stage two, which requires that 2 000 megawatts of power be rotationally cut from the system, to stage four, which requires cuts of 4 000 megawatts.

Their design and technical problems include flaws in boiler design, resulting in high temperatures that the spray water-cooling system cannot cope with under certain conditions, which causes units to trip. Flaws in the fabric filter plant result in excessive wear of bags, requiring frequent bag replacement and causing ash blockages and increased load losses and trips.

The problems at Medupi and Kusile intensify the long-standing challenges of the upkeep of Eskom’s fleet. Under previous leadership the utility continually deferred much-needed maintenance to save money and avoid power cuts. “One of the issues complicating the problem is that, in all of the institutions that have been confronted with the experience of state capture … good people are either forced out, or top skills leave, because they don’t want to work in a toxic environment,” he said.

They are busy with corrupted deals with coalmines and third-party inside Eskom to supply the power station. They blame it on Loadshedding to deceive the public.

Smokescreen 😵😵😠😠😠👇👇👇

Lies.

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