Five units set to return online on Sunday: Ramokgopa
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says five generating units are set to come back online on Sunday evening.
Ramokgopa provided an update on the power grid in Tshwane on Sunday.
He spoke shortly after Eskom placed the country on stage 3 load shedding from Sunday from 9am until 5am on Monday morning.
The embattled power utility said it needs to implement power cuts to replenish emergency reserves in preparation for the week ahead.
“So, I want to indicate that we do expect that five units should come back by tonight, and here I’m referring to Duvha unit number 5, Majuba unit 5 is already on load, and we are expecting Lethabo unit 4 to come on stream by about midnight today. Then we are also expecting about two units to come back tomorrow (Monday) and that’s Duvha unit number 6 and Arnot unit 3,” said Ramokgopa.
“Of course, this messaging is the functioning of our ability to keep to this timelines, and of course, you can see that some of them we had already delayed returned to service, but we are confident about the ability of bringing these units back on stream to ensure that we are able to address this situation.”
Meanwhile, unit 1 at the Koeberg Power Station in the Western Cape was successfully connected back to the grid on Saturday after almost a year of being offline.
The unit was supposed to be serviced and connected back online in June.
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