Medupi declared a national key point

The power parastatal held an inauguration ceremony to declare the Limpopo-based power station as a national key point.

"The Medupi Power Station is of strategic and national importance due to its generating capacity of 4,764MW once completed. It will be the largest dry cooled power station in the world consisting of six super critical boilers and six turbine generator units with air cooled condensers," said the utility.

The station is also critical to Eskom's responsibility towards South Africa's economic growth, job creation and socio economic development of Lephalale.

"Due to its critical importance to the national grid in providing sustainability of electricity supply and limiting load shedding, it is imperative for the safety and security of the asset that it be declared a national key point as defined by the National Key Points Act."

Meanwhile, Eskom said it is progressing well when coming to the maintenance of its power generating plants while keeping the electricity system stable.

"As a result, no load shedding is anticipated today," it said.