Eskom chief executive Thulani Gcabashe says the Western Cape will still have to save about 400 megawatts of electricity at peak periods – this despite the arrival yesterday in Cape Town Harbour of the giant rotor needed to get one of Koeberg nuclear power station's two reactors back on line. The 200-ton rotor was brought from Europe by the navy's SAS Drakensberg. Gcabashe told a VIP welcoming ceremony on board the vessel that as soon as Koeberg’s Unit One was back on line, scheduled for May the 15th, Unit Two would be shut down for refueling. He said both units would only be operating at full power again towards the end of July.
Also at the ceremony were Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool, Cape Town mayor Helen Zille, chief of the navy Vice-Admiral Refiloe Mudimu, and French ambassador Jean Felix-Paganon.
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