Cape Town - On 20 March 2014, Eskom announced the termination, with effect from 17 April 2015, of the approximately €100m (approx. R1bn) control and instrumentation (C&I) works contract placed with Alstom in 2011 for its 4800 MW Kusile power station, which currently under construction near eMalahleni (Witbank) in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.
Shortly thereafter Eskom announced that it had appointed ABB South Africa to execute the C&I contract at Kusile power station. The ABB contract is valued at about US $160m (approx. R1.5bn), and it is understood that ABB will essentially be starting the C&I Works at Kusile from scratch.