Eskom moving to stage two load shedding
Eskom has announced that it will move to stage two load shedding from 14h00 on Wednesday (4 February), as a result of power station units not returning to service as planned.
Eskom announced earlier on Wednesday that it planned to implement load shedding to 10pm as the group’s systems remain under pressure.
The power utility had previously noted that the power grid would remain under pressure the entire week as a unit of its Koeberg power station had to be taken offline due to a technical fault.
The unit, which supplies 900MW of power, was scheduled to be taken down for maintenance next week.
Several other units were offline on Wednesday.
“At Majuba power station, Unit 3 has an ash conveyer belt which is stuck and at Duvha, Unit 2 tripped last night due to a technical fault on the electrical side that is currently being repaired,” the power utility said in a statement.
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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