Load shedding hits stage 6 again – on a weekend
power cuts equal the worst-ever load shedding overnight on Saturday as it battles breakdowns in its ageing fleet of coal-fired power stations.by criminal syndicates at its power stations, said in a tweet at 4.40pm on Saturday that it will escalate load shedding from stage 4 to stage 6 – meaning a supply deficit of 6GW – from 8pm until 5am on Sunday.
This, it said, is to “create space to replenish the emergency generation reserves”. It warned it might have to impose stage-6 cuts again overnight on Sunday and into Monday.provided no details about what has caused the latest deterioration in its plant performance.Earlier on Saturday, the utility said it had resolved an issue at the Koeberg nuclear power station in Cape Town that had caused unit 2 of the facility to trip at 10pm on Friday evening.
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