Last week, South Africa experienced Stage 8 loadshedding without prior notice, and the situation could escalate now that the only functional unit at Koeberg nuclear station experienced a complete shutdown:
, A single stage of loadshedding requires Eskom to shed around 1,000MW of electricity, while Stage 6, which was enforced this week and yesterday, needs between 5,001MW and 6,000MW of energy to be shed. Stage 8 demands a cut of 7,001 to 8,000MW.
‘We did not [implement stage 8 load-shedding] … basically we curtailed 1,353MW from those customers on load curtailment and reduced 5,719MW from all other customers, which made up the 7,072MW load,’ Mokwena said. According to energy specialist Lungile Mashele, ‘We experienced Stage 8 load-shedding. While Eskom may claim that they were not load-shedding, the manual load-shedding, along with interruptible load-shedding and virtual power stations, totaled more than 7,000MW.
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