S. Africa Faces More Outages as Eskom Takes Atomic Units Offline
- Two of continent’s largest generating units to be repaired
- Eskom warns power system ‘may be under additional strain’
The entrance to the Koeberg nuclear power station, operated by Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., in Cape Town.
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Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which supplies almost all of South Africa’s power, will take two of the continent’s largest generating units offline this year for maintenance, increasing the risk of power cuts after the nation had record outages in 2021.
The extended unavailability of the units with capacity of 920 megawatts each due to the “planned long outages does mean the electricity supply system may be under additional strain during the coming year,” Eskom said in statement on its Twitter account.