Eskom lifts load-shedding a day early - The beleaguered power utility has managed to recover 2000 megawatts in partial load losses from when it implemented stage four load-shedding earlier in the week
, chief executive of the ailing parastatal, made the announcement during a media briefing on Thursday morning. Eskom is set to reduce load-shedding to stage 2 on Thursday at midday before it is suspended at 5am the next morning.
On Wednesday morning, after a recovery of its emergency generation reserves, the utility scaled load-shedding down to stage 3. On Thursday, full unplanned outages amounted to 5 755MW and partial load losses amounted to 4 256MW, leaving the grid with a total unplanned capacity loss of 10 011MW. De Ruyter, who has recently been the target of calls for him to relinquish the reins of Eskom, emphasised that consumers being aware of their electricity use goes a long way in helping the grid recover.
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