Load shedding: One of SA's newest multi billion power plants is defective

The deepest power cuts in more than a decade imposed by cash-strapped, state-owned Eskom this month reduced the chances of the continent’s most-industrialised economy posting a stronger recovery from last year’s recession.Eskom is battling to meet demand and is considered one of the country’s biggest risks.

However, two of its four units haven’t been operating as they are in a “defects-correction period,” Eskom said in an emailed response to questions. The units have been “derated” to 245 megawatts when multiple units are running, it said. That means that when all units are operational, the plant is running at least 25% below its installed capacity.

Fin24 and which party robbed the money ment for the power station. Fact the ANC

Fin24 Ja ja

Fin24 Use wrong engineers

Fin24 Happy new year. Whah hhhaaaaaaaa. It shall pass too

Fin24 What happens when nefarious Corrupt Politically Connected ANC Tenderpreneurs bag these lucrative billion rand projects..

Fin24 Smells of sabotage coz if it looks like duck and walks like duck . . . Why are all the facilities suddenly not working ? Sounds like a nuclear conspiracy to me - possibly by the Zupta camp ?

Fin24 Here's an idea. Let's spend TRILLIONS of Rands in a Nuclear power plant. What could possibly go wrong?

Fin24 Thinks not working is the norm, please post stories when they work, that would sock the people of SA.

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Fin24 Viva

Fin24 We will do to ANC what we did to the apartheid regime

Fin24 Come the 8th of May

Fin24 Of course the project overran budget by R27bn and was 4 years late too. Cadre deployment

Fin24 This I told you 3 years ago !!!?

Fin24 myanc couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery. They must go down in history as the most inefficient, deviant, corrupt bunch of underachievers the world has EVER seen, and yet idiots still vote for them, what does it it say about SA?

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Fin24 Can you imagine they went nuclear?

Fin24 No ways please double check guys...

Fin24 They steel or break everything they touch.

Fin24 not surprised it's time to vote the ruling party out

Fin24 Ingula Pump storage 😳😳😳

Fin24 This current government never get full of disappointing us😟🤕

Fin24 How can something that costs billions be defective, tenders are being given to incompetent companies due 2 corruption

Fin24 Didn’t someone say things are world class.. blah blah blah

Fin24 At the extra cost of 8.5 billion and is rendered useless? They get away with it too. Such a Disgrace.

Fin24 Would you expect anything less?

Fin24 I give up 🙅🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

Fin24 Built by blacks .

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