LYDENBURG – Eskom stopped stage 2 load-shedding at about 21:30 on Tuesday February 26. According to Eskom, restoration of power takes longer in some areas.

The electricity supply system remains very vulnerable due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently out of service due to planned and unplanned outages.

According to Eskom, any unforeseen incident in the power system will thus trigger the implementation of load-shedding. This is the company’s maintenance season and it expects the power grid to remain constrained for the rest of the summer.

Eskom said it would like to apologise for the inconvenience to affected customers and it would like to thank all electricity users for heeding the call to use power sparingly.

Eskom will continue to provide regular updates on the status of the power system will be provided.