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Eskom's board has approved a decision to have Hendrina, Camden and Grootvlei power stations be decommissioned after 2030. (Richard Du Toit/Gallo Images).
Eskom's board has approved a decision to have Hendrina, Camden and Grootvlei power stations be decommissioned after 2030. (Richard Du Toit/Gallo Images).

Eskom's board has approved a decision to run Hendrina, Grootvlei and Camden power stations up until 2030, later than their original decommissioning schedule.

Eskom group executive for generation, Bheki Nxumalo, on Monday during a briefing about the Energy Action Plan, shared that the new schedule for the decommissioning of the plants would be determined at a later stage.

"We have just recently received board approval to run three of our power stations, Hendrina, Grootvlei and Camden, up until 2030," he told journalists at Megawatt Park.

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