8.3-run-until-2035-7-6f0e58c45a1bc0df.pdf

This document is an excerpt from the Energy Services Consolidated Life-ex Report for the Hendrina Power Station. It details the remedial programmes and investment costs required to manage the station's common plant areas—including coal handling, boiler house, turbine hall, and cooling towers—to ensure operational viability until the planned decommissioning date of 2035.

• The remedial strategy for the common plant area is designed to balance cost-effectiveness by performing interventions early enough to prevent expensive repairs but late enough to avoid unnecessary costs before the 2035 decommissioning date, allowing for a "manageable (safe) degree of deterioration" in the final years.
• Critical infrastructure risks are identified in the ash plant; specifically, if a new ash dam is not constructed by mid-2018, the station will exhaust its ash storage capacity.
• The cooling towers require urgent attention, including a forensic investigation into the root cause of cracking in Tower 4 and the lining of sulphuric acid bunded areas to prevent environmental contamination.
• The report warns that failure to implement the majority of the recommendations could lead to drastic increases in maintenance costs and the occurrence of major, potentially life-threatening failures and continuous boiler trips.

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Chicago

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