Further breakdowns necessitate all-day stage 6 load shedding until further notice.
Power utility Eskom says stage 6 load shedding will be implemented continuously until further notice, following the breakdown of more generating units at its power stations.
Since Sunday afternoon, a generating unit each at Arnot, Hendrina, Lethabo and Majuba, as well as two units at Camden Power Station have suffered breakdowns and taken offline for repairs. Further, two generating units at the Lethabo Power Station were shut down due to coal constraints as the New Vaal Mine that is supplying the station has been unable to deliver the expected amount of coal during the past week because of the heavy rains, it said.
“The three running units are operating at minimum capacity and are at risk of shutdown should the coal supply constraints not be resolved,” it said.there is a possibility of further changes on the stages of loadshedding at short noticeBreakdowns currently amount to 21,243MW of generating capacity while 3,566W of generating capacity is out of service for planned maintenance.
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