Cape Town - Eskom on Friday announced it appointed a new South African contractor to replace Alstom to execute the control and instrumentation (C&I) for the Kusile power station.
Kusile is situated at eMalahleni in Mpumalanga.
The local contractor, ABB South Africa, was selected from two suppliers which were evaluated as part of an extensive procurement process executed in parallel with the negotiation and subsequent consensual termination of the C&I contract, Eskom said in a statement.