Eskom’s Power Delivery Project (PDP), which comprises of about 47 projects, is currently valued at US $ 3.53bn as of March 31 2014. The project focuses on new infrastructure commissioning, construction and engineering projects in the power transmission division.
In the past seven years, Eskom has carried out transmission and infrastructure project that carry a value of US $ 2.49bn.
US $ 1.38bn has been allocated for an additional transmission line for the next five years, but a total of US $ 1.45bn is needed for completion of the whole project.
PDP projects include addition of new assets for the new building programme for the Medupi power station in Limpopo, the Kusile power station in Mpumalanga, the Ingula pumped-storage scheme in KwaZulu-Natal, independent power producers’ integration, and the 765 kV transmission line projects.
Eskom’s Transmission Development Projects (TDP) in Mpumalanga entail extension of the 400KV network, integration of Kusile coal power station already under construction, and installation of additional transformers in existing and new sub-stations in the province.
At the moment, the Medupi projects stands to be largest at US $ 0.94bn, and phase I is expected to be completed in July 2014, while the recently approved phase II will be completed end of 2016.
The Greater East London Strengthening Project is also part of the PDP project, which will build a transmission line from Eros sub-station to the new Vuyani Sub-station and the Neptune sub-station, both in East Cape.
Both in-house and contractor services were given the scope of work.
