- Eskom is pleased to announce that on Sunday, 9 March, at 18:17, Koeberg Unit 2 was successfully brought back to service.
- The unit has been incrementally ramped up to 646MW and will continue to increase its output until it reaches its full capacity of 930MW, in accordance with established operational protocols.
- This follows an unplanned outage due to a steam leak on the reheat system.
“Koeberg is a key contributor as part of Eskom’s energy generation mix and stabilising electricity supply in South Africa by providing reliable baseload power. It helps increase the energy security of the country and provide critical megawatts to close our national energy supply gap, and it will continue to play a key role as Eskom moves aggressively into delivering a cleaner energy portfolio,” said Bheki Nxumalo, Eskom Group Executive for Generation.
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Author: Bryan Groenendaal
