UPDATE: High risk of load-shedding later today
Eskom says its objective remains not to implement load-shedding during the day today, however, given the unplanned breakdowns and the need to continue to replenish emergency reserves, the probability of load-shedding remains high for the latter part of the day.
Stage 2 load-shedding was terminated at 05:00 after being implemented late last night.
Eskom said in a statement this morning, “While the system remains extremely constrained and vulnerable, the overnight load-shedding assisted with partial recovery of our emergency resources to enable us to get through the morning. We will need to continue to replenish both our water levels at pumped storage schemes and diesel for our open cycle gas turbines over the weekend in order to place us in a better position to stabilise for the week ahead.”
Eskom has assured that it will only be implemented if absolutely necessary, and that updates will continue to be communicated.
Eskom stated that its technical teams are working tirelessly to return units from planned and unplanned maintenance and also to replenish emergency reserves.
It continues to urge customers to assist by helping to reduce demand by using electricity sparingly, stating that a concerted collective effort to reduce demand can further help to lessen the level of load-shedding.
Save electricity by:
• Setting air-conditioners’ average temperature at 23ºC.
• Switching off your geysers over peak periods.
• Using the cold water tap rather than using the geyser every time.
• Setting your swimming pool pump cycle to run twice a day, three hours at a time for optimal energy use.
• Turning off computers, copiers, printers and fax machines at the switch at the end of the day. Avoid stand-by or sleep mode.
Eskom reminded its customers that “load-shedding is conducted rotationally as a measure of last resort to protect the power system from a total collapse or blackout”.
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They state that they lost an additional three generation units today.
As a result of this their emergency reserve is now at critical levels.
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Eskom mentioned that the risk of load shedding for tomorrow remains high if generating units don’t go on overnight as scheduled.
They also encouraged the public to switch off their aircons, geysers, and use their cold taps instead of the hot.
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Read the full Eskom statement here
