The worst case scenario for load shedding in South Africa: Eskom
Addressing media on Wednesday morning , Oberholzer said the embattled power utility was forced to run 20 OCGTs in combination with stage 2 load shedding to help it get it through Tuesday’s evening peak period.
Since then, Eskom has returned four units to service. However, these units still need to ramp up to full output, which necessitates a high usage of emergency generation reserves today. This being the fourth day of extremely high diesel usage, the emergency reserves are being depleted faster than can be replenished.5,505MW in planned outages;To keep this system running, Oberholzer said that Eskom was currently using nine million litres of diesel a day.
“If you look at the finances we are using lot of money just to keep the system sustainable. Should we run out of diesel then the country would face an additional three stages of load shedding.” Oberholzer clarified that these additional stages would be added to whatever load shedding had already been introduced. However, he noted that this partly informed Eskom’s decision to introduce stage 4 load shedding on Wednesday so that the country does not reach this scenario.
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