Eskom is facing severe challenges, including senior managers not doing their jobs and employees ignoring alarms at power stations. These problems were revealed by Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter and COO Jan Oberholzer in separate media briefings.
For over a year, Eskom promised South Africans that load-shedding would be significantly reduced from September 2021 because of their extensive maintenance plans.
Eskom asked the public to grin and bear load-shedding until this time as it was needed to create a reliable generation system. The time of reckoning has now arrived, and Eskom failed miserably.
South Africa experienced the worse load-shedding it has ever seen over an October period. It was clear that Eskom promise of a more reliable generation system was misguided.
People were looking for answers, and De Ruyter and Oberholzer played open cards in recent media briefings. Eskom’s Chief Operating Officer Jan Oberholzer confirmed that “pure negligence” by Eskom staff contributed to the recent load-shedding. Oberholzer said employees did not perform their duties, which included ignoring alarms at power stations.
De Ruyter added that an operator at the Kusile power station ignored a flashing light on a control panel that indicated a low oil level. It led to a power generation unit tripping. De Ruyter also admitted that their plants had been poorly maintained and remained unreliable.
“At this stage, our poorly maintained power plants are calling the shots. That is why we had load-shedding,” De Ruyter told The Money Show’s, Bruce Whitfield. We could have avoided it, but regrettably, the lack of reliability of our system caught up with us, and we had to implement load-shedding.”
De Ruyter admitted that incompetence and neglect by Eskom staff is one of the major reasons for the recent bout of load-shedding.
“When you look at the bad habits that many of Eskom employees acquired during the era of state capture – especially when some of my less than illustrious predecessors were in charge and pulled levers to enrich themselves — that embedded very poor operational practices,” he said. To unlearn those practices are going to require some doing. We have already made a number of management changes.”
Source: mybroadband
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