Eskom still to announce week’s prognosis for load shedding

A prognosis for the coming week’s load shedding will be announced by Eskom later on Sunday.

In the meantime, no load shedding is expected on Sunday.

“We have successfully returned Koeberg unit 1 to service after a planned outage, which has added an additional 900MW to the system, said Eskom on Sunday morning.

The additional capacity brought on line, as well as lower demand over the weekend, has allowed Eskom to replenish its pumped storage schemes and the entity continues to work to improve on the diesel levels at open gas turbine generators.

Unplanned outages or breakdowns were at 13 859MW at 6.30am on Sunday.