Zuma officially opens Medupi unit 6
Unit six is expected to add at least 800 MW to the struggling national power grid.
LIMPOPO – President Jacob Zuma officially opened unit six at Eskom’s new Medupi power station at Lephalale, Limpopo, on Sunday 30 August.
Unit six is expected to add at least 800 MW to the struggling national power grid. The unit, the first of the coal-powered plant’s six units to be completed, was synchronised with the national grid in March this year, and has been undergoing tests
Medupi was scheduled to be fully online four years ago, but construction at the plant has been delayed by labour unrest, leading to spiraling costs running into billions of rand.
Construction of Medupi power station at Lephalale in Limpopo, expected to be completed in 2019, will cost at least R105 billion, Eskom’s head of group capital said on Sunday.
“We do reviews on projects, in terms of scope, completion time, costs, and so on. R105 billion is what has been approved through governance structures for Medupi. There has been reports that the project would cost R300 billion… we do not know where that figure comes from,” Abram Masango told journalists during the official launch of unit six on site at Medupi.
