Eskom said in a statement that it planned to cut 1,000 megawatts (MW) on a rotational basis countrywide from 11am to 11pm, a month after implementing some of the worst power cuts in several years.
Eskom, which supplies more than 90 percent of the country's power, has suffered a series of unplanned breakdowns at its creaking coal-fired power station fleet which limit its ability to power the country.
Eskom said in a statement that it planned to cut 1,000 megawatts on a rotational basis countrywide from 11am to 11pm, a month after implementing some of the worst power cuts in several years. Andrew Etzinger, a senior Eskom official, told Reuters that around 12,000 MW of Eskom's roughly 45,000 MW capacity was offline on Thursday because of unplanned outages at some of the company's coal-fired power stations.
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