Eskom going back to stage 5 load-shedding — here is the new timetable
Eskom has announced it will increase its planned load-shedding stages to an alternating rotation of stage 4 and stage 5 from Wednesday.
The utility said it suffered breakdowns of four generating units — one each at Duvha, Lethabo, Majuba and Tutuka power stations — over the past 24 hours. It was also struggling with delays in returning a unit each to service at Arnot, Camden, Duvha and Kendal power stations. Despite returning a unit each at Camden, Kriel, Matla, and Matimba power stations, breakdowns stood at 19,031MW.The utility initially aimed to gradually drop load-shedding to stage 3 during most daytime hours and stage 4 during the evenings and early mornings. This will still be the case for Tuesday.
However, instead of dropping to stage 3 during the daytime hours on Wednesday, load-shedding will remain at stage 4 until 16:00.Stage 4 load-shedding will be repeated between 05:00 and 16:00 on Thursday and Friday, while stage 5 will run over Thursday evening and the early morning on Friday.The table below shows Eskom’s revised load-shedding schedule for the rest of the week.
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