BL Premium reports that former Eskom chief operating officer (COO) Jan Oberholzer, who retired at the end of April, has signed a contract to stay on at the power utility to oversee some of its most crucial projects, including getting all units at Medupi and Kusile online.
Eskom confirmed on Wednesday that Oberholzer, who had worked at the utility for about 30 years, would remain on in a new role. Oberholzer was appointed as Eskom’s first COO in 2018 and the board does not intend to fill the role left vacant after his retirement. “[Oberholzer] is on contract to manage the steam generator replace project at Koeberg, as well as the return to service and commissioning of Kusile and Medupi’s outstanding generation units,” said Eskom interim spokesperson Daphne Mokwena. Getting the roughly 3,200MW from Kusile and 800MW from Medupi online is central to Eskom’s generation recovery project to improve the output performance of the fleet from where it now stands at about 53% to 65% by the end of March next year. Finalising the commissioning and return to service of units now offline at Kusile and Medupi, and getting both generation units at Koeberg back online, would add enough power to prevent about six stages of load-shedding.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Denene Erasmus at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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