Eskom has announced that load shedding has entered into stage three\u00a0due to a further reduction in generation capacity.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday Eskom said\u00a0power outages would be from 8am until 11pm due to a shortage of generation capacity.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the power utility said unit 3 at Majuba power station had an ash conveyer belt which was stuck and at Duvha, unit 2 tripped on Tuesday night due to a technical fault.<\/p>\n
Work continued at Koeberg which experienced a fault on Sunday.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Eskom said the power grid was under pressure after one of Koeberg\u2019s 900MW units was taken out of service because of a technical fault.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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,\u201d the power utility said at the time.<\/p>\n
Eskom said it would continue to provide regular updates on the status of the power system.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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