Three more unit breakdowns, delays in returning five units to service, and lower capacity than usual from the Cahora Bassa hydro scheme means that Eskom will have to continue implementing relatively high levels of load-shedding in the coming week. However, stage 6 is not currently on the cards.
Eskom plans to gradually reduce load-shedding to a day-night rotation of stage 3 and stage 4 in the coming week but will resume stage 5 for several hours on Monday night and Tuesday morning.stage 4 load-shedding would remain in effect until 16:00 on Monday, after which stage 5 is set to be implemented until 05:00 on Tuesday morning.
The utility said it had returned a generating unit each at the Arnot, Grootvlei, Kendal, Medupi and Tutuka power stations back to service in the past 24 hours.There was also delay in returning units to service at Arnot, Hendrina, Kendal, Medupi and Tutuka power stations, contributing further to the current capacity constraints.
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