Eskom implements load-shedding; IEC says it won’t affect vote counting: Eskom has announced that stage two load-shedding will be implemented from 4pm on Tuesday afternoon until 5am on Wednesday morning.
from 4pm until 5am on Wednesday, after a generation unit at its Kusile power station in Mpumalanga tripped.
The state utility urged consumers to reduce the use of electricity because the system was “severely constrained”. “These constraints are expected to persist for the rest of the week, which may require the load-shedding to be extended,” Eskom said in a statement. This comes after the power utility enforced rotational power cuts for several days last week, suspending them on Friday evening ahead of local government elections on Monday. is still counting votes from the 1 November election and has said power cuts would not interfere with this process.
Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer had said ahead of the municipal elections that he was confident the power utility could A total 17 933 megawatts had been lost as a result of unit breakdowns, with planned maintenance representing 3 451MW of lost capacity, Eskom said on Tuesday.If our elections coverage helped inform your decision at the polls, cast your vote for an informed public and join our subscriber community. Get access to all our best journalism, subscriber-only newsletters, events and a weekly cryptic crossword.
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