Technicians tirelessly working to return unit at Koeberg to service, says Eskom

Eskom management said that technicians were working around the clock to return a tripped unit at the Koeberg nuclear power station to service.

The utility’s management held an emergency media briefing on Monday morning, giving an update on the electricity grid’s status.

Over the past week, electricity generation at Eskom saw capacity gradually deteriorate, resulting in stage 4 being implemented on Saturday.

Eskom group chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said that over the course of the past week, 42 units tripped.

“The Koeberg team are fully aware of the impact of the current unavailability the 920 megawatt has on the current situation and are working around the clock to ensure that it can return to service as soon as it’s considered safe to do so,” Oberholzer said.

Oberholzer also said it’s been an extremely disappointing week: “On Monday, last week, we sent down eight generators at various power stations. That was a total of under 5,000 megawatts.”

37 OF 42 TRIPPED UNITS RESTORED

Eskom said it was extremely disappointing that it’s had to implement rolling power cuts again as it warns the country to brace for more dreadful days of load-shedding during the summer period.

Electricity generation capacity declined last week to the point where stage 4 load shedding needed to be implemented on Saturday.

Oberholzer said technicians have managed to restore 37 of the 42 tripped power generation units this week.

The group chief operating officer said planned maintenance at the Cohora Bassa plant has been completed.

“On Sunday, a further 650 was taken out of service for maintenance at Cohora Bassa and I can confirm the full 1,000 megawatts was returned to service,” he added.

-EWN

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