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- Stage 3: until 16h00<\/li>\n
- Stage 4: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Wednesday, 1 March<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Stage 4: 00h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n
- Stage 5: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thursday, 2 March<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Stage 5: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n
- Stage 4: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n
- Stage 5: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Friday, 3 March<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Stage 5: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n
- Stage 4: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n
- Stage TBD: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nOver the past 24 hours, a generating unit each at the Camden, Kriel, Matla and Matimba power stations were returned to service.<\/p>\n
Breakdowns at a unit each at Duvha, Lethabo, Majuba and Tutuka power stations caused units to be taken offline for repairs.<\/p>\n
The delay in returning a unit each to service at Arnot, Camden, Duvha, and Kendal power stations are contributing to the current capacity constraints, Eskom said.<\/p>\n
Breakdowns currently amount to 19,031MW of generating capacity, while 4,174MW of generating capacity is out of service for planned maintenance.<\/p>\n
South Africa has experienced near-permanent load shedding since September 2022 and has suffered through rolling blackouts – usually at high levels – every day of 2023 so far.<\/p>\n
While social groups and political parties have approached the courts in a bid to bring the outages to a stop, Eskom and former CEO Andre de Ruyter have warned that interfering with the load shedding schedules would likely lead to a grid collapse and total blackout.<\/p>\n
Load shedding is implemented as a last resort to protect the grid from collapse – forcing Eskom to keep the lights on would not address the underlying issue of a lack of generating capacity.<\/p>\n
Plans are in place to add more capacity to the grid, but unfortunately, none of these are short-term quick fixes, and the country is likely to keep experiencing rolling blackouts for the next two years at least.<\/p>\n
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has gazetted new regulations under the national state of disaster to fast-track new generation builds and unlock resources to try and mitigate the impact of load shedding.<\/p>\n