‘Load-shedding not the same as blackouts’ — Eskom CEO: André de Ruyter assures the public that the power utility is currently on track to lift load-shedding on Saturday morning
“This terminology is, in fact, not correct. What we are implementing is called load-shedding. And you may think this is a euphemism. It is not,” De Ruyter said.
it would escalate load-shedding from stage two to stage four amid ongoing generation-capacity shortages. On Wednesday morning, following a recovery of its emergency generation reserves, the utility scaled load-shedding down to stage three. “Summer months typically have a lower demand overall and, therefore, our preferred time for carrying out maintenance is during summer months,” De Ruyter explained.
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