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Eskom RT&D Overview
NSTF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL
IN SOUTH AFRICA
17 APRIL 2018
Sumaya Nassiep
Acting General Manager
Research, Testing & Development
Research, Testing & Development
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Business Mandates
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.
To provide electricity in an efficient and sustainable manner,
including its generation, transmission, distribution and sales
1.
Research, develop & select
next horizon technologies to
support Eskom’s future strategy
2.
Provide Specialist Technical
Testing & Inspection
Services
3.
Demonstrate next horizon
technologies
Risk & Sustainability Division
To provide long-term sustainable business performance& growing stakeholder
confidence by providing functional leadership to Eskom on Zero Harm, Quality, Low Carbon
Growth and Operations, and Reducing the Environmental Footprint
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RT&D Value Statement
Equipping Eskom leadership with knowledge to effect decisions today that will
optimise existing operational imperatives AND allow future generations to meet
their needs
RT&D Structure
R,T&D General Manager
S Nassiep (Acting)
Plant Performance &
Optimisation
N Haripersad
Power Delivery &
Utilisation
A Mashao
Sustainability
T Mogale
Technology Strategy
& Research Management
C Gross
Business Enablement
Middle Manager
N Hlela
Real Time Asset
Management
Information
Communication
Technologies
Socioeconomics,
Health & Safety
Materials and Plant
IntegrityDemand Management
Technology Strategy
and Research
Management
Air Quality, Climate
Change &
Ecosystems Mgmt.
Distribution Solutions
Underground Coal
Gasification
(UCG)
Renewable
Technologies
Fuels and Combustion
Transmission
SolutionsInnovation Circuit
Water Resources
Physical Metallurgy
Grid Planning and
OperationsProject Office
Applied Chemistry &
MicrobiologySMART Grids
Energy Markets:
Economics, Statistics &
Decision Sciences
System Dynamics
Emission Reduction
Technologies
Petroleum and Flow
Sciences
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Our People
HIGHEST QUALIFICATION TOTAL FEMALE MALE BCA
PhD - completed 13 2 11 5
PhD - underway 9 4 5 7
MSc (Eng) – completed 29 4 25 18
MSc (Eng) – underway 19 6 13 16
MSc – completed 30 18 12 23
MSc – underway 29 10 19 25
BSc (Hons) 40 10 30 20
BSc (Eng)/ B Eng completed 74 21 53 50
BSc (Hons) - underway 13 5 8 11
BSc - completed 15 8 7 13
BTech /BTech Eng 42 25 17 41
BTech - underway 25 13 12 25
National Diplomas 27 5 22 16
Total Further Studies (2017) 95 38 57 84
➢ 371 Employees
➢ 105 Engineers
➢ 57 Scientists
➢ 124 Technologists/Technicians
➢ 240 Learners Trained 2012-2017
RT&D Mandate & Work Integration
Research, Testing and Development
Mandate
Delivery & Outputs
Applied Research
Research, Develop and Select Next Horizon
Technologies to support Eskom’s future
objectives
Technical Consulting,
Testing and Inspection
Provides Specialist
Technical and Testing Services to support
Eskom’s existing asset base
Demonstration & Pilots
Demonstrate next horizon flagship
technologies within the business
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Leading technological development &
innovation in support of Eskom’s Evolving
Business Model
Flagship Projects
12 Grand Challenge Work Packages focussed
on the 8 Eskom Sustainability Dimensions:
Operational, Financial, Asset Creation, Climate Change &
Environment, Human Capital Growth, Social &
Transformation, Building a Solid Reputation
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Customers
Operational Excellence
Eskom RT&D’s most valuable contribution is answering the following research questions in the next 3 to 5 years
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1. What would be our technology choices and future generation mix be in 2050?
2. How do we support (operate and maintain) our existing Generation, Wires & Retail business with severely constrained budgets?
3. How will Eskom adapt it’s business to the imminent strong technology disruptors and develop new business?
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Top 12 Grand Challenges for the next 5 years:
1. Coal: Development and implementation of technology and business solutions withinfive years that guarantee the quality of coal in line with plant design whilst ensuringthat the price of coal remains competitive relative to other resources
2. Water: Provide solutions that will support Eskom remaining within its 2% annualwater allocation whilst introducing new emission reduction technologies by 2020.
3. Clean coal: RT&D will provide innovative cost effective design solutions for lowemission coal options for Eskom in the next five years
4. Generation performance management and asset management: RT&D willprovide greater insight into plant condition for asset management purposes anddemonstrate technology solutions to drive performance to 80:10:10 sustainably
5. Gas: Can RT&D provide Eskom with gas strategic options and improve businesscase definitions based on the latest technologies, new applications and trends in thegas market within three years
6. Nuclear: RT&D will develop advanced high temperature gas cooled reactortechnology options for Eskom in the next five years
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Top 12 Grand Challenges
7. Renewables: R,T&D will provide optimized solutions in support of Eskom’s
Corporate Plan through the delivery of at least 3-Renewables applications in the
next 3-years.
8. Transmission build solutions: RT&D will provide technology solutions for the
evacuation of power from new generation, including SADC, and for plant
refurbishment without customer interruption in constrained servitudes, and capex
within five years.
9. Transmission asset management and technical performance: RT&D will
provide greater insight into transmission plant condition for asset management
purposes and demonstrate technology solutions to improve operations and
maintenance under constrained budgets whilst maintaining system minutes
performance, within five years.
10. Distribution asset management and technical performance: Can RT&D assist
Distribution to achieve a step change improvement in technical performance (SAIDI
and SAIFI) by leveraging on technology innovations in the next five years
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Top 12 Grand Challenges for approval cont.
11. Future Customer: Can RT&D formulate affordable value added, business products and services for Eskom’s existing and new customers based on an integrated, smart, green localised and energy efficient technologies in the next 3 years?
12. Flexibility: How do we operate our plant in a real time trading environment in the next 5 years?
FLAGSHIP PROJECTS
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Projects
Target
FY17/18 FY18/19 FY19/20 FY20/21
FY21/2
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Future customer revenue streams viz.
• eMobility
• Distributed Energy Resources
25% 50% 75% 100% N/A
Rural Off-grid Micro Grid Pilot 75% 100%
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle & Automated
Transmission Asset Inspection
50% 75% 100%
Bulk & Beyond Meter Energy Storage 20% 40% 80% 100%
Advanced high temperature gas reactor 20% 30% 40% 70% 100%
Coal logistics and assurance 50% 75% 100%
Underground coal gasification commission 40% 50% 70% 85% 100%
Establish Non-Destructive Test Facility 20% 40% 60% 100%
High voltage DC test site 50% 95% 100%