Eskom announces stage 3 load-shedding until Monday

IT will be a gloomy weekend for many as Eskom has this afternoon (Friday) announced it is implementing stage 3 load-shedding from 2pm today until 5am on Monday.

The power utility said this is to replenish emergency reserves over the weekend following the loss of 2 700MW over the past 14 hours.

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“The constrained capacity resulted in the increased reliance on emergency reserves during this week, which makes it necessary to focus on replenishing these critical resources during the weekend in preparation for the business week,” Eskom stated.

“Eskom is focused on deploying extra engineering resources to expedite the repair of units currently offline.

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It is anticipated that 6 200MW will be restored to service by Monday’s evening peak.

“We have had some delays in returning previously tripped units back to the grid, as well as the return of three units that have been on longer-term outage, which will bring 2 500MW back to the grid. This will happen over the coming weeks,” said Eskom group executive for generation Bheki Nxumalo.

“We reiterate our commitment to ensuring South Africa is in no way returning to the levels of load-shedding that we experienced in 2023.”

Loadshedding schedules can be viewed and downloaded from https://t.co/UzMtttaJ4q

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