Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has explained a “perfect storm” of breakdowns led to Eskom depleting its emergency generation reserves in the past week, requiring load-shedding over the entire weekend.
The rotational power cuts will last throughout the weekend to allow Eskom to refill its emergency generation reserves for next week.
Ramokgopa explained that a “perfect” storm of multiple unplanned breakdowns and continued necessary planned maintenance had resulted in the power utility depleting its emergency generation reserves in the past week. Eskom CEO Dan Marokane said that the power utility had to implement load-shedding to refill water levels at the utility’s pumped storage schemes and diesel reserves for its open-cycle gas turbines over the weekend.
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