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Residents and travellers passing Koeberg Power Station might have noticed steam occasionally rising from the power station this past week.
In a statement Eskom explained this is good news as it is an indication that the outage for Unit 1 is almost over. “The steam generators on Unit 1 have been successfully replaced and the unit is expected to be synchronised to the grid by the end of October. “Thereafter, the unit will start supplying electricity to the national grid, however the output will be ramped up to full power over a period of two weeks, while commissioning tests are performed,” the power utility explained.
The work also marks another milestone on the Eskom’s Generation Operational Recovery Plan, aimed at sustainably improving generation performance by improving the energy availability factor to an average of 65% by March 2024.
“The completion of this long and challenging outage on Unit 1 through the commitment, sacrifice and hard work of all the Eskom employees, contractors, partners, and suppliers is a huge milestone in the process of extending the life of Koeberg and a positive development in the execution of Eskom’s Generation Operational Recovery Programme.
“Hopefully, should the NNR award the licences to Koeberg to operate beyond 2024, the station will continue to operate safely and reliably for another 20 years, as it has been the case for the last 39 years. This is recently demonstrated by Unit 2’s good performance while Unit 1 was on long outage,” Eskom said.
