Question NW2928 to the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy
18 December 2023 - NW2928
Mileham, Mr K to ask the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy
With reference to the identification by his department’s Integrated Resource Plan of the Komati Power Station as an underperforming power plant scheduled for decommissioning in 2020, and in light of his claims in recent interviews and speeches that the Komati Power Station was a performing plant that should not have been decommissioned, what (a) total amount of electricity did Komati Power Station generate and (b) was the Energy Availability Factor at the time of its decommissioning?
Reply:
As part of information gathering process in preparation for the development of IRP 2019, the Department requested information on existing power plant generation capacity and performance projections. Eskom projected Komati to be performing at energy availability factor of 87 percent in year 2020. Komati power station has a design generation capacity of 1000 MW from a total of nine units. The repurposing of this power station has therefore led to the loss of this capacity.