Eskom has seen good progress in the five key elements of its turnaround plan
21 May 2020
Eskom has provided details of the company’s operational performance and the system outlook for the winter period during the status of the power system briefing earlier today.
Eskom Group Chief Executive, André de Ruyter revealed that despite facing major challenges in the past four months, Eskom has seen good progress in the five key elements of the organisation’s turnaround plan. These are achieving operational stability, improving income statements, strengthening the balance sheet, embarking on organisational restructuring, and inculcating a high performance culture.
De Ruyter explained that owing to the short-term opportunity maintenance that was implemented, taking advantage of the reduced demand during the COVID-19 national lockdown, Eskom was able to achieve 30 000MW available capacity without the use of the open-cycle gas turbines yesterday.
“While the generation plant performance still demonstrates unpredictability and unreliability, there has been some improvement in the energy availability factor (EAF), with a marginal increase, from 64% in March 2020 to 65% in April 2020,” said De Ruyter.