Eskom promises no load shedding for five months

FOR the next five months, there should not be any load shedding.

Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe said they did not foresee load shedding until May 2016.

The power utility has managed to go without rolling blackouts for more than 80 days now while continuing with its maintenance programme.

“We will step up our maintenance in December as everyone goes on holiday. We will add quite a lot of units to the maintenance programme to catch up on the backlog,” Molefe said.

Molefe told Parliament Eskom was celebrating 50 days of no load shedding and 87 days where only two and a half hours of load shedding took place.

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