Eskom’s power emergency has been lifted, the power utility said on its Twitter account.<\/p>\n
“Urgent Notice #Eskom lifted the power emergency at 10pm. Power has been restored in all areas,” it tweeted on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
On Friday around 7.30am, however, the Eskom load shedding website still bore the warning: “Eskom is currently load shedding in stage two”.<\/p>\n
The stage two power cut plan aims at saving up to 2000 megawatts.<\/p>\n
Spokesman Andrew Etzinger was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n
At 6am on Thursday Eskom announced a power emergency caused by heavy rains, which wet its coal stocks.<\/p>\n
Large industrial customers were asked to reduce consumption by 10 percent and the public were asked to conserve electricity to help ease demand on the power grid.<\/p>\n
In Tshwane, power was cut for about two hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The areas affected included Waterkloof, Pumulani, Koedoespoort, Tonnel, Mayville, Highlands, Soshanguve, Montana, Rosslyn, and Pretoria North.<\/p>\n
Johannesburg’s effected areas included Hillbrow, Berea, Houghton, Parktown, Rosebank, Hyde Park, Inanda, Alexandra, Rembrandt Park, Sunningdale, and Lombardy.<\/p>\n
The City of Cape Town initiated “stage three” power cuts and suburbs in Port Elizabeth were also hit affected by it.<\/p>\n
Eskom urged the public to continue to use electricity sparingly although the emergency was over.<\/p>\n
On Friday morning, Johannesburg City Power issued a load shedding schedule as a precaution.<\/p>\n
Spokesman Sol Masolo said: “As we speak, now there is no load shedding. We have the schedule just in case [the emergency resumes]”.<\/p>\n
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