Eskom has suspended the General Manager of the Koeberg Power Station while investigations into the performance of the plant are conducted.
On Friday, the power utility’s spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said the suspension came amid investigations into the performance of the nuclear power station.
Eskom’s Chief Nuclear Officer, Riedewaan Bakardien will oversee all operations at the power station.
Mantshantsha says Koeberg Unit 1 is one of Eskom’s biggest generating units with a capacity of 900MW, and has been on an outage since January 2021.
He says it could have assisted in reducing the depth of load shedding had the unit been brought back on time as originally planned.
