Balancing the business of energy and water

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Water and energy With a track record of some 15 years at Eskom, Govender joined the organisation’s Generation Division’s Primary Energy, Water Supply Department in 1998 as a mechanical engineer. Today, he is the Acting General Manager: Operations, under the group’s Commercial and Technology: Primary Energy Division, where he is responsible for integrated planning and operations of primary energy resources such as coal, water and limestone. In this role he provides general management of the coal supply, water supply, logistics operations as well as environmental and technical services; a position that he enthusiastically describes as having a new challenge every day and an opportunity to learn something new. According to Govender, one of the major challenges for the organisation is the security of water supply to its power stations in the long term. “This is a major area of focus for us. We have existing and new power stations that last anywhere between 50 and 60 years and it is very important to ensure that water is available to sustain these power stations.

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