Eskom blamed the intensified load-shedding on increased planned maintenance, from an average of 3,000MW in June to an average of 6,000MW in September, as well as the recent failures of multiple generating units.
Eskom has announced a return to stage 5 load-shedding over Sunday evening and the early morning hours of Monday.statement on Sunday afternoonThe utility will then reduce load-shedding to stage 4 until 16:00 before ramping back up to stage 5 over Monday evening and Tuesday morning.Eskom blamed the intensified load-shedding on increased planned maintenance, from an average of 3,000MW in June to an average of 6,000 MW in September, as well as the recent failures of multiple generating units.
“In the same period, a generating unit at Arnot, Camden and Grootvlei power stations were returned to service.” Eskom said the increase in load-shedding was also necessary to recover emergency generation reserves.
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