Unit six at Eskom's newly-built Medupi power station in Limpopo produced power for the first time on Monday.
Eskom chief executive Tshediso Matona says the electricity flowing into the grid marks a new beginning and that within the next three months, South Africa will see Medupi unit six’s full potential of 794 Megawatts being fed into the South African national grid.
This is the first of Medupi power station’s six units to be synchronised into the grid.
Public Enterprise Minister Lynne Brown said sychronisation of the unit was a step towards alleviating some of the energy problems the country faced.
