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Eskom’s head of generating units, Rhulani Mathebula, said they needed to reinvent the wheel and find effective ways to repair aging equipment.
FIRE: Eskom’s Kendal Power Station is coal-fired and located in Mpumalanga. Image: eskom.co.za
JOHANNESBURG – Eskom’s head of generating units, Rhulani Mathebula, said the utility needed to find a better way to deal with aging infrastructure at its power plants.
South Africa will face another day of continuous intermittent blackouts as technicians are working to return many units that have been disconnected due to a restricted system.
Eskom said the load shedding would begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning and last until 10 p.m.
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The utility company said the power outages weren’t the result of cold weather, but had a lot to do with its equipment.
Mathebula said that like the South Africans, the utility was equally concerned about the failure of power plants.
He said they needed to reinvent the wheel and find effective ways to repair aging equipment.
“What is not right is the large number of failures that we are seeing against our own predictions about the amount of work and processes that we have implemented.”
Mathebula said they did not have a skills shortage, but the challenge they faced was dealing with unreliable infrastructure.
“We also have our OEMs who support us in this, the companies that designed the boilers also support us in their maintenance.”
The utility company has been assuring South Africans for many years that it would get their house in order, but has continued to remove burdens.
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