Ramokgopa lauds interventions at Kusile Power station – SABC News [Video]

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Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has lauded interventions at the Kusile Power station for contributing to the improvement in the generation of electricity.

This comes as Eskom’s energy availability factor (EAF) has now breached the 70% mark for the first time in years and is currently standing at 70.78%.

The minister gave a briefing at the Kusile power station in Mpumalanga. He says the last time the country experienced such high improvements in the EAF was in the year 2021.

South Africa has seen 47 days without rolling blackouts – and the Minister attributes this to a consistent performance by Eskom Power Stations.

Mooted in 2022, the Energy Action Plan identified six priority power stations that were contributing 75% to the outages, one of them Kusile in Emalahleni. The station has since stabilised with units back online and the energy availability of over 90%.

“Just Kusile today is trending at an …