Load shedding to hit Tuesday evening
Eskom has announced that stage one load shedding will be implemented from 18h00 until 22h00 this evening.
“Any unexpected changes on the already constrained system may impact the stage and we will inform South Africans accordingly,” the group said.
Stage one 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 said on Monday (9 February) that its systems would be under severe pressure for the rest of the week.
“The system will continue to be under severe pressure over the coming week, so the risk of load shedding remains high,” Eskom said.
“There is a shortage of generation capacity due to units that are currently out of service due to planned and unplanned maintenance.”
The focus was on returning the units that were on unplanned maintenance back on line in order to increase available capacity.
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