Fin24 2.png Load shedding is history, says Eskom as another Ingula unit goes live Matthew le Cordeur, Fin24, Cape Town, 31 August 2016 The third unit at Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme was brought into commercial operation on Tuesday, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe announced on Wednesday. Each unit adds 333 MW of peak power to the grid, which is key in the power utility's ability to cope with peak demand, especially during winter. Addressing Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprise, Molefe pointed out that all four units were synchronised on March 3, March 25, May 21 and June 16, which meant 1 332 MW was being fed into the grid in winter. However, the commercial handover is the end date for the completion of the project. Units 4 and 2 went into commercial operation on June 10 and August 22, while unit 1 went live on Tuesday night. Unit 3 had a breakdown during synchronisation and would be up and running by January 2017, Molefe said. "The repairs of damaged unit 3 are progressing," he said. "It is the only unit that is expected to come into commercial operation during this financial year." In addition, Molefe said Medupi unit 5 is on track for commercial operation in the first half of 2018. "With commercial operation of Ingula and the coming on stream of Medupi unit 5, it will be very hard to go into load shedding," Molefe said. From: http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Eskom/load-shedding-is-history-says-eskom-as-an other-ingula-unit-goes-live-20160831 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14049 (20160831) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002301d203cd%24867f14a0%24937d3de0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
