Many South Africans are still be on holiday. Yet Eskom is steadily ratcheting up its rolling power cuts – now going to stage 4.
are still be on holiday. Yet Eskom is steadily ratcheting up its rolling power cuts – now going to stage 4 with effect from 4pm on Thursday – and setting the stage for a year of intense load shedding.
The move to stage 4 comes just a day after the state-owned utility announced that it was pushing the power cuts to“Stage-4 load shedding will be implemented from 4pm this afternoon until 5am tomorrow morning. Thereafter, stage 3 will be implemented until 4pm on Friday. This pattern will be repeated until Sunday morning,” Eskom said in a statement.
The utility blamed a delay in returning seven generating units to service for the escalation in load shedding. “The further delays in returning to service a generating unit each at Arnot, Camden, Kendal, Kriel and Matla, and two units at Majuba power station, have contributed to the capacity constraints,” it said.
“We currently have 6 014MW on planned maintenance, while another 17 278MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns and delays in returning generators to service.” —
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