At the time of its statement, Eskom had an astounding 23,857MW of total generating capacity unavailable, among the highest levels of outages yet.
While Eskom had returned three generation units to service at the Duvha, Lethabo, and Medupi power stations since Saturday morning, three units at Majuba, Medupi, and Tutuka broke down.
“Furthermore, the delay in returning units to service at Arnot, Camden, Hendrina, Majuba, Matla and Tutuka power stations continued to add to the current capacity constraints,” Eskom said. The increase in load-shedding comes after Eskom had initially planned to rotate between stage 3 and stage 4 on Saturday and Sunday.
However, by Saturday afternoon, load-shedding had already changed to stage 5, which will now increase to stage 6 at 16:00 on Sunday.
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