3. Interventions to remedy situation Eskom has made several interventions to minimise further delays in the project and was working closely with the management of the main contractors to ensure that they bring in more experienced engineers and technicians and put in extra hours. The company has also implemented the conditions of the contract with regards to performance guarantees, by calling on the bond on Alstom. However the bond has not been called on Hitachi as Eskom was still exploring a penalty that would be more suitable for Hitachi. If Eskom cancelled the contract and went with another contractor, they would have a different design to Hitachi and this would cause more delays and the cost would increase as well. All the stakeholders have agreed on the establishment of a new Partnership Agreement (PA) which will address issues such as skills development, wage standardisation, dispute resolution and mechanisms for dialogue. 4. Successes in the project Eskom reported that unit six was back-energised by the generator transformer allowing the plant to draw power from the 400kW distribution system. On 24 June 2013, Eskom achieved auxiliary boiler blow-through. The auxiliary boiler system provides steam on start-up. They successfully completed turbine on-barring on 5 July 2013. The turbine barring gear will enable safe operation of the turbine once the plant is running. Direction tests of the 64 Air Cooled Condenser (ACC) fan motors commenced in July and will be completed by 20 August. The ACC will condense steam coming out of the turbine so that it can be heated again in the boiler. The water expansion project is in phase 2 and will only come on stream in 2018.