Eskom has suspended load shedding one day early, with the state-owned entity seeing a recovery of generation capacity and the replenishment of sufficient emergency reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eskom implemented stage 3 load shedding on Friday, 7 March 2025, following troubles at the Kusile and Koeberg power stations and slippages in the return of units from planned maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, following the recovery of over 3,000MW of generation capacity and replenishment of sufficient emergency reserves in the past 44 hours, load shedding has been suspended from 10:00 today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was previously scheduled to only end at 05:00 tomorrow, 10 March 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Coal operations at Kusile Power Station are at optimal levels, with all units that were offline as of Friday now back in service. Progress on the recovery of Koeberg Unit 2 recovery well underway,” said Eskom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eskom reassured the public that Koeberg Unit 2 remains safe despite a trip at South Africa’s only nuclear power station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It added that coal operations at the Kusile power station are at optimal levels, with all units that were offline as of Friday now back in service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The SOE added that maintenance outages aimed at preparing for winter and meeting regulatory and environmental licensing requirements continue, with the team looking to restore over 4,000MW by Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group said that its Summer Outlook, published on 26 August 2024, remains unchanged, with its winter outlook set to be published later this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We maintain our guidance that loadshedding is largely behind us due to structural improvements in the generation fleet.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“While baseload capacity remains constrained, our generation recovery plan is addressing this challenge.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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