Medupi’s Unit 6 has officially gone online.<\/p>\n
It was launched by President Jacob Zuma in Limpopo on Sunday. <\/p>\n
The unit will pump a much-needed 800 megawatts into the country’s electricity supply.<\/p>\n
President Zuma says the economy will benefit from the switch-on.<\/p>\n
But at the same time, Koeberg’s Unit 2 will be offline for three months of scheduled maintenance, starting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
It will see about 930 megawatts taken off the grid. <\/p>\n
Despite this, Eskom says it doesn\u2019t foresee power outages linked to the Koeberg work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Medupi’s Unit 6 has officially gone online. It was launched by President Jacob Zuma in Limpopo on Sunday. The unit will pump a much-needed 800 megawatts into the country’s electricity supply. President Zuma says the economy will benefit from the switch-on. But at the same time, Koeberg’s Unit 2 will be offline for three months … Continue reading “Medupi online as Koeberg switches off”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[457,12313,11518,4531,175,5830],"class_list":["post-20175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-electricity","tag-grid","tag-koeberg","tag-medupi","tag-nuclear","tag-power"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20176,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions\/20176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}