Stage three load shedding strikes
Eskom has announced that load shedding has entered into stage three due to a further reduction in generation capacity.
Earlier on Thursday Eskom said power outages would be from 8am until 11pm due to a shortage of generation capacity.
On Wednesday, the power utility said unit 3 at Majuba power station had an ash conveyer belt which was stuck and at Duvha, unit 2 tripped on Tuesday night due to a technical fault.
Work continued at Koeberg which experienced a fault on Sunday.
On Monday, Eskom said the power grid was under pressure after one of Koeberg’s 900MW units was taken out of service because of a technical fault.
“The unit is expected to be at full capacity by the end of the week. The same unit is due for planned outage on 9 February 2015 and will be returned to service again in May,” the power utility said at the time.
Eskom said it would continue to provide regular updates on the status of the power system.
Stage one load shedding allows for up to 1000MW of the national load to be cut, stage two for up to 2000MW, and stage three for up to 4000MW.
Eskom’s load shedding schedule can be found here.
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