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State-owned electricity group Eskom is warning that its use of the country’s diesel-fuelled open cycle gas-turbines (OCGT) is set to remain elevated in the coming months as the utility seeks to avoid load-shedding in a context of rising planned maintenance and the ongoing risk of unplanned breakdowns. Eskom has already spent R5.5-billion for the year-to-date to run its own OCGT plants and a further R3-billion to purchase electricity form the private Avon and Dedisa plants, as the energy av...

Maintenance deferred due to budget constraints.

A worst-case scenario will result in Eskom having to spend R7.5bn for the seven months up to the end of August on running open-cycle gas turbines to keep load-shedding at stage 2 for no more than 90 days.

A worst-case scenario will result in Eskom having to spend R7.5bn for the seven months up to the end of August on running open-cycle gas turbines to keep load-shedding at stage 2 for no more than 90 days.

While Eskom continues to make major positive strides and delivering key milestones in its plan to operational recovery, the road to sustainability will still be long and hard. Major projects and outages undertaken this year will continue to exert pressure on the supply side, raising the risk of loadshedding in the short term. These outages, however, are necessary interventions that will deliver long term benefits and the security of energy supply. “Despite our good performance in recent we...

Power utility Eskom has warned that the road to operational recovery and sustainability will be long and hard.

Eskom has revealed an ambitious plan which will see it invest more than R170 billion over the next decade in new capacity expansion projects for transmission of electricity.

Today, Eskom shared its Transmission Development Plan (TDP) for the period 2022 to 2031 with various stakeholders during a virtual public forum. This is part of Eskom’s Transmission licence requirements issued by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA), which calls for Eskom to publish a TDP annually.  This forum forms part of a consultative process where industry, various business sectors, local government, and other infrastructure development partners, get to influence...

State-owned electricity utility Eskom says its reliability maintenance recovery (RMR) interventions have not yet succeeded in stabilising the performance of its unpredictable coal fleet and that more than year of ongoing maintenance is needed to address the poor performance of its generation assets. When Eskom announced the RMR in early 2020, it indicated that it expected that the intervention would help ease, albeit not eliminated, the risk of load-shedding by about October this year.

Eskom on Monday painted a dire picture for the load shedding outlook at its state of the system briefing.