“That’s too hot and it’s damaging the exhaust equipment. That’s why we can’t operate the units to their full capacity,” said André de Ruyter, the chief executive officer of Eskom.
We’re not just lengthening the boilers, we’re also fixing faults with the coal mills and the equipment used to handle coal.The first of those, unit three at Medupi, was taken offline on January 25 to make the modifications and will begin running again only after April 9.The last unit of Medupi was meant to be completed in April to enable the power station to start delivering 4 700MW of electricity. However, it is now scheduled to be completed only in July next year.
He pointed out that Medupi and Kusile were both air-cooled power stations, which was why the boilers had to be bigger than those at other power stations.
How is this even possible? These are the heaviest boilers on the planet, what will hold them in place while they are extended? This article has more holes in it than Swiss cheese 🧀
FatalMoves Things just get better NOT. BEE obviously does not work......please please anc employ qualified people instead of PALS.....
koko_matshela engineer come this side, what happened here?
AshrafGarda Well 600MW shedding off the grid does not even amount to stage 1 loadshedding... Do it!
Lol
I want to know who the design engineers are?
Any morons who falls for ANYTHING in that article needs their heads read. If de Ruyter actually said what they claimed he did, either Eskom_SA has lied through their teeth to him or he's a fool. I suspect the former. Of course it's highly likely that City Press are lying...
koko_matshela we need you back at Eskom. This rubbish guy has no idea about power generation, when has exhaust steam been 128degreesC? We are stepping into deeper darkness daily
Something is wrong here, an Advocate talking? Serious. Those two power stations were designed by engineers and now again some engineer says the design is wrong. Who is to benefit her. Who to trust from both engineers. Then if its approved and later its found its wrong again.
Yehheni safa fie
Who got the billion tender to screw us and who's getting the next tender to fix the mess?Eskom_SA care to explain?
What a balls up!
But Medupi is still new mos what's there to modify?
Are you going to use the same welders who had to do the job twice? The ones who left all that turbine-killing slag in the boilers? Are you going to test the new boilers properly this time?
So they built kusile using second hand parts?
rinmor one can only weep
Incompetance
Why not charge both koko_matshela and Brian Molefe with criminal negligence ;I believe both of them are still doing millions of Rands business every month with Eskom, through their front companies!
Lord!
Incompetents or revenge, both being treasonous
Penalties?
Repairs? Are these things not new?
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