LoadShedding reduced to Stage 3 during the day on Wednesday, Thursday | Fin24
Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented at 05:00 to 16:00 on both Wednesday and Thursday, Eskom announced on Tuesday.Eskom anticipates lower stages of loadshedding to be implemented through the weekend as some units return to service. A unit each at Arnot, Camden and Kusile power stations tripped or were taken offline for repairs since Monday , while a unit each at Kusile and Kendal power stations were returned to service.
The government is consulting on the measures and will announce a"comprehensive set of actions" in the coming days on how it intends to tackle power outages, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday in his weekly newsletter.Eskom has selected 18 companies to lease some of its unused land in Mpumalanga to develop renewable energy projects. These will add 1 800 MW of generation capacity to the grid. A further 2 000 hectares of land will be released by August.
The system is unreliable and unpredictable at the moment, with a very high unplanned outage of 9 097MW, Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter told a media briefing on Monday. “Due to the unlawful strike, we have suffered significant backlogs in maintenance, and we therefore will take a number of weeks to fully recover from the strike.”Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer is addressing the media on the current system challenges, which have resulted in Stage 4 load shedding this week.
Stage 4 load shedding will follow from 05:00 on Monday to midnight that night. Load shedding will then be reduced to Stage 2 from midnight until 05:00 on Tuesday. A total of 3 349MW is out on planned maintenance, while another 16 865MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns, Eskom said.SA will see Stage 5 load shedding on Wednesday and Thursday, Eskom said in a statement on Tuesday night, shortly after inking a wage deal with unions.
Eskom confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that it had reached agreement with three recognised labour unions, bringing to an end labour action that plunged the country into stage 6 load shedding. This comes after weeks of wage talks deadlocked at the Central Bargaining Forum, which triggered protests, disruptions and intimidation at various Eskom plants and plunged the country into Stage 6 load shedding.
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