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Project Management Consultancy
Case Study
Kusile Power Station
Kusile Power Station (formerly known as the
Bravo Power Station) in South Africa is a coal-
fired power plant under construction by state
electricity utility Eskom.
It is expected that Kusile would consist of
six 800 MW coal-fired generating units for a
total generating capacity of 4,800 MWs. Once
completed, Kusile will be the fourth-largest
coal-fired power station in the world.
Initially expected to take 6 years to complete,
now the project is expected to complete
before 2020.
The power station will be the first in South
Africa and also on the African continent to
use Wet Flue-Gas Desulphurisation (WFGD)
technology. WFGD is the current state-of-the-
art technology that is used to remove oxides
of sulphur (SOX), for example, sulphur dioxide
(S0 ), from the exhaust flue gas in power
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plants that burn fossil fuels such as coal or gas.
Eskom is fitting WFGD at the Kusile plant as an
atmospheric emission abatement technology,
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in line with current international practice, so as
to ensure compliance with air quality standards.
Total site area is 1355 hectares (3348 acres).
155 billion Rands. Total cost to completion (CTC)
for Kusile power station will be 225 billion Rands.
TCE’s PMC BU provided the construction
supervision and quality management, project
management and final engineering data
books certification and management services
for Kusile power project in South Africa to
overcome the boiler quality issues which
affected the overall project performance
and to overcome the project delay. TCE was
consulted for quality interventions to ensure
compliance as defined.
Challenges
1. Communication gap between client and
contractors in the field of construction,
project management and engineering
document review process.
2. Number of different departments was
working for the same project activity and
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