Eskom clarifies permanent load shedding reports
Power utility Eskom says that it has not announced permanent stage 2 and 3 load shedding in South Africa.on Sunday declaring permanent stage 2 and stage 3 load shedding is hitting the country for the next two years, Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said that this was a measure that was considered but ultimately rejected.
“The recovery of generation performance will not happen within a short space of time, the execution of the recovery plan requires that power stations are given space and headroom to execute the recovery plan this requires either adding additional capacity to create space to do proper maintenance without firefighting ,
As part of the recovery plan, Eskom will be addressing systemic issues, especially those relating to leadership and the entire organisational culture of the power utility, he said. With the exception of a day or two over the festive period, South Africans have been subjected to load shedding every day since load shedding escalated in the last quarter of 2022, with stages ranging from stage 1 to stage 6.
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