Eskom to implement stage 2 and 3 power cuts daily

Following yesterday’s announcement that South Africans should brace themselves for prolonged load-shedding, Eskom has announced daily power cuts of stage 2 and 3.

The power utility says that ‘until further notice’ stage 2 load-shedding will be in effect every day between 05:00 and 16:00, while stage 3 load-shedding will be implemented daily between 16:00 and 05:00 the next morning.

#LoadsheddingUpdate 16 November 2022

#STAGE3 #Loadshedding will be implemented from 16:00 today until 05:00 tomorrow, whereafter #STAGE2 #Loadshedding will be implemented from 05:00-16:00 tomorrow. This cycle will be repeated until further notice

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) November 16, 2022

Eskom also announced that a contractor at the Camden Power Station was arrested yesterday, after he was linked with an incident of sabotage.

#EskomMediaStatement

Internal saboteur arrested at Camden Power Station pic.twitter.com/5vEHZoNNAw

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) November 16, 2022

Meanwhile, the South African Government said they will work with the struggling power utility to ensure that generation units return to service as scheduled.

The Government is working with Eskom to ensure that units return to service pic.twitter.com/aJeddqs3OU

— GCIS Media Liaison (@GCISMedia) November 16, 2022

Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer yesterday announced that Koeberg Unit 1 will be taken offline on December 8 and is only expected to return to service by June 2023. Kusile unit 1 (duct failure) and unit 2 (precautionary delay) went offline on October 23 and a date is yet to be determined when they will return to service. Meanwhile, unit 3 at Kusile was taken off on November 3, also as a precautionary measure, and a date to return to service is also yet to be announced.