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Medupi's Unit 6 produced first power─── 12:50 Mon, 02 Mar 2015
Pretoria - Eskom has announced that first power was produced out of Medupi’s Unit 6 today at 11:03, making it the first of Medupi power station’s six units to be synchronised.
Synchronisation, or first power, is the process whereby the generator in the unit is electrically connected to the national power grid, in such a way that its power is perfectly aligned with all the other generators to generate and deliver electricity into the national power grid.
Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona, says this is the final stage marking an exciting milestone towards full commercial power.
He says within the next three months, South Africa will see Medupi unit 6’s full potential of 794MW being fed into the South African national grid.
He says the past six years has been spent training and developing a core set of people who will operate the cutting edge technology that makes this power station unique in the world.
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