LIVE | Stage 6 planned for Monday, with heavy load shedding expected for the week
We apologise to SA for Stage 6 load shedding. We have a true sense of urgency when it comes to addressing these matters. Our teams are working around the clock. We are engaging with various govt entities to ensure we get the necessary support. De Ruyter: We have debated having [permanent load shedding]. Planned maintenance contributes to load shedding. The"normalisation" of load shedding would give us the headroom to carry out maintenance ...
The week of 3 to 11 September has, however, shown that even historically accepted patterns of operation can no longer be fully relied on as Eskom's power stations, on average 40 years old, are now in desperate need of major refurbishment, the result of decades of underspending on maintenance and apparently dubious practices that were meant to keep the lights on at all costs, rather than preserve any long-term reliability.
Load shedding will be downgraded to Stage 3 until 05:00 on Monday morning. The week's schedule will be updated on Sunday, with shedding expected to continue into the week. Eskom also saw breakdowns during the past few days of three generating units each at Kendal and Tutuka power stations, as well as the delayed return of a unit at Camden Power Station.
Before this a generating unit each at Arnot and Medupi power stations had been taken offline for emergency repairs.
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