Less power generation capacity and outages at several units has led to the implementation of blackouts, Eskom said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Work continues at Koeberg which experienced a fault on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Eskom would implement stage one blackouts on Wednesday between 10am and 10pm.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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