India to provide powerplant control centre to South Africa’s Eskom

India will provide South African parastatal electricity supplier Eskom with a Powerplant Control Room simulator to train locals in Eskom’s plans to renew and repurpose its power stations across the country, an official has said.
The announcement was made on Friday after representatives of a dozen Indian energy companies met Eskom executives on the sidelines of the Urja Matla Energy Conference.
The conference was hosted by the Indian Consulate General and the Wits Business School.
Harish Kumar, Commercial Representative and Head of Chancery at the Indian Consulate in Johannesburg, said at the meeting that India was ready to help Eskom in renovation and modernisation, equipping them with efficient systems through supercritical and ultra supercritical sets, emission control, and latest technologies in transmission and distribution.
“Also, we would be willing to provide a simulator of Powerplant Control Room to train the local manpower of Eskom in the operation of power plants. This ..