Fire damages unit at Eskom’s Kendal Power station
Eskom has confirmed that a fire ripped through a part of its Kendal Power station in Mpumalanga in the early hours of Saturday morning, damaging one of the units.
The power utility says this was due to the failure of a generator transformer.
"Upon initial investigation, it was determined that the generator transformer had caught fire. The fire damaged the cables to the main cooling water system on the west side of the power station. Unit 2 and Unit 3 experienced loss of vacuum and were shut down under controlled condition," reads the statement by Eskom.
Nobody has been injured and personnel were safely evacuated and an investigation is underway into the cause of the fire.
Eskom still has to assess the impact of the damage on the national power grid.
The power utility says Kendal Unit 2 and 3 will return to service sometime during the week.
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