Once again, the weather has beaten Eskom, with the state-owned utility set to ramp up load shedding for the weekend.
The state-owned utility said on Friday that it has been forced to ramp up load shedding to stage 5 as temperatures across South Africa plummet.
“Due to higher than anticipated demand, stage-5 load shedding will be implemented from 4pm today until midnight,” Eskom said in a statement. “Thereafter, stage-4 load shedding will be implemented until 5am on Sunday.” The utility then expects load shedding to be reduced to stage 2 until 4pm on Sunday, after which it will implement cuts at stage 4.The country has been hit by a second powerful winter weather system in as many weeks. During the last cold snap,
ramped up power cuts to stage 6, meaning it was not able to supply 6GW of demand into the national grid.said it was fighting plant breakdowns at its ageing coal-fired power stations. On Wednesday, breakdowns had reached more than 19GW of capacity even as planned maintenance was reduced. –
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