
[miningmx.com] – DELAYS were likely at Eskom’s Kusile installation after resources were diverted from it in order to meet the year-end commissioning of the first unit of Medupi, a power station that has also been repeatedly delayed.
Citing comments in South Africa’s parliament to the portfolio committee on energy by acting head of Eskom’s group capital, Dan Marokane, BDLive said resources from Kusile “… had been transferred to Medupi in order to support its recovery plan”.
On September 15, Eskom began a 100-day countdown to the synchronisation to the grid of the first unit of Medupi, which will indicate its readiness for commercial operation by June next year, said BDLive.
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