However, the unit in question has since synchronised to the grid ahead of Monday morning’s peak period.According to Kgadima, should the supply dip below the 20 000MW mark, the country will definitely face a total blackout.
Load shedding is the current means to prevent this collapse, but if the instability reaches critical proportions, power stations would automatically start to disconnect from the grid as a safety measure. “It’s a litany of woes connected to many of the wrong people being in their jobs, incompetence, wrongly appointed, downright corrupt, and by now staff morale is at a tipping point,” said Trollip.
He said those 81 machines are unpredictable and unreliable and stressed the prognosis is that they will continue to break down more and more. He is an all-round business leader comfortable in governance, people and technical aspects of the role, according to Eskom.He also has extensive operating, power station management, and production experience.
Let's hope that, what's left of journalism ended up at this newspaper. I'll be watching because nobody reads News24 anymore.