Eskom: Electricity system is recovering

Eskom last night announced that it’s electricity system has made significant progress towards full recovery after the shortage of generating capacity during the industrial action caused the company to implement load-shedding last week.

June 26, 2018

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The system’s improvement is largely as a result of several units being returned to service
from planned and unplanned maintenance, including those that were on outage as a result
of the industrial action.
Unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear power station, which was on planned outage for routine maintenance, has also been returned to service and is on its
way to reaching full capacity. Furthermore, Eskom has a mitigating strategy in place to
increase coal stockpiles at affected power stations.