The latest delay in the synchronisation of the first unit at Medupi Power Station could result in the plant only delivering electricity in 2019 – five years later than planned.
This is the word from Chris Yelland of EE-News, who reports that the deadline for synchronisation of the first unit at Medupi Power station has been extended by a further six weeks, from mid-February 2015 to end-March 2015.
“This follows the recent disclosure by Eskom that the commercial operation date for the first unit at Eskom’s Kusile power station has been delayed by a year from mid-2016 to mid-2017,” he writes in his newsletter.
“This means that Medui and Kusile, which should had been fully on stream – with all six 800MW units at each power station generating commercial power into the grid by end 2013 and 2014 respectively – are running five years late as a result of project execution delays.
“Medupi and Kusile are now only expected to be fully on stream delivering commercial power into the grid by 2019 and 2020 respectively.”
