After visiting Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said he was ‘worried and also extremely upset’ about delays in getting the power plant’s Unit 1 back online.
Beleaguered utility fined R950 million for delays in planned maintenance at Koeberg, which will leave the country without a major power source for months
As South Africa faces down the most severe period of rolling blackouts and failures with energy provision, many senior leaders who have oversight of key aspects of the country’s attempts to address its interconnected energy and climate crises are choosing to leave their posts.
While Eskom is positive about plans to extend the lifespan of the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station for another 20 years, information on how it will do this has been kept largely under wraps, a move the DA is opposing potentially legally.