Stage 2 load-shedding for Sunday
The breakdown of the Medupi Power Station conveyor belt last night caused load-shedding to be implemented last night and again today.
MBOMBELA – Eskom has announced that load-shedding will persist until 05:00 on Monday.
Initially it was instituted from 22:00 last night, due to the conveyor belt failure.
Although the conveyor belt has since been repaired, the loss of additional generating units as well as the depletion of Eskom’s diesel and pump storage levels have forced the power utility to implement stage 2 load-shedding for today.
“We continue to ask customers to reduce demand as a concerted collective effort, in order to avoid or reduce the level of load-shedding.”
It is likely to continue during the course of next week. Eskom stated, “We will give South Africans regular updates about our prognosis for tomorrow and our recovery efforts for the week ahead.”
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Please see the stage 2 load-shedding schedule for today:
09:00-11:30
Block 10
Delta,Valencia, Steiltes, Orchards, CBD and KaMagugu
17:00-19:30
Block 14
West Acres, Mediclinic, i’langa, Macadamia Village, Halls and Mbombela Stadium
23:00-01:30
Block 1
Riverside Precinct and Kiaat Hospital
Monday
03:00-05:30
Block 3
White River, Phumlani, Rocky Drift, Paarlklip and Msholozi area
Stage 2: Allows for up to 2 000MW of national load to be shed. This means that your area will be scheduled for load-shedding six times over four days, for two hours.
“Our teams continue to work tirelessly to return units back from the planned and unplanned outages. Due to inadequate maintenance over a number of years, the system remains vulnerable to unplanned outages,” the issued statement by Eskom read.
Eskom reminded its customers that load-shedding is a crucial measure to ensure that the integrity of the power grid is not compromised.
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