Power lines feed electricity to the national grid from Koeberg Nuclear Power Station.
Tropical cyclone Idai may have damaged the transmission lines that carry power to South Africa from the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric system in Mozambique – but this only accounts for 1,100 megawatts of electricity contributed to the national grid. 5,000MW of power was lost this week after eight generator units went down due to boiler tube leaks, with a further three units running, but with boiler-tube leaks.The main cause for the leaks is the use of poor-quality coal which causes abrasion in the boiler tubes, according to Yelland.
“These are tests available to predict when units need to be repaired and maintained. The whole question is why these predicative maintenance tests were not being done. The answer is that Eskom failed to renew the company contracted to run the tests.”Instead, Eskom chose to follow a policy of reactive maintenance, acting after a failure has been reported.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
BISouthAfrica We got load shedding 3times today.. not according to scadule.. f***kn unacceptable. 😡😡😡😡 Loadshedding EskomLoadshedding
BISouthAfrica Poor maintensnce, poor decisions from incompetent people appointed by the ANC is why SA has the problems it has. But then stealing money was the main object
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BISouthAfrica Send this to CyrilRamaphosa its pointless I read it I can't do anything about it the ANC will still be in power ill regardless of who I vote for our situation will still get worse the system of patronage will still continue ineffectiveness still rewarded with another chance
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