During a briefing on Wednesday, Ramokgopa said, “All of the things that we shared with the country regarding the winter outlook remain valid.

“In the winter outlook, we made the point that we enter 2025 on a much better footing than we did the winter of 2024. We are entering this winter confidently in that Koeberg unit 2 was synchronised to the grid on 30 December 2024.

Koeberg unit 1 which is currently on outage… we are projecting that it’s going to come back in July 2025 when we’re at the peak of winter.

“We also have successfully synchronised Kusile unit 6 to the grid in March… that’s an additional capacity on the grid, approximately 800MW.”

Darul Ihsan Media Desk