Eskom’s chilly winter outlook: Capacity shortage could last until August stage8
JOHANNESBURG - Eskom hopes to meet the massive generation capacity shortfall expected for electricity demand this winter.However, he said, despite all their efforts to ensure additional generation is supplied to the grid, the country would be entering this winter 3,000 megawatts less than last year.
Bheki Nxumalo, Group Executive Generation: Multiple levers are being implemented to reduce the level of loadshedding pic.twitter.com/vn6b7BBo6SNxumalo said if Eskom's interventions bore no fruit in meeting the winter electricity demand, load shedding could be ramped up to Stage 8.
“If we have delays in returning units to service there's a knock-on impact because we don’t really have spare capacity on the network to move outages around. So we are really operating under very pressurised conditions to make sure that we do what we can to do the maintenance, return units on time and avoid a knock-on impact that would put us again on the backlog.”
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