Eskom is increasing its planned load-shedding on Sunday night, but there are more suspensions of the power cuts coming in the next few days.
Eskom plans to implement stage 2 load-shedding during the evenings and early morning hours and suspend the rotational power cuts for most daytime hours, until further notice., the power utility said it would implement stage 2 load-shedding from 16:00 instead of stage 1 as previously communicated.
Eskom said although its available generating capacity had been sustained, the need to replenish emergency reserves for the upcoming week necessitated an increase in the stage of load-shedding. “Unplanned outages have further reduced to 13,350MW of generating capacity, while the capacity out of service for planned maintenance is at 8,476MW,” Eskom said.
Eskom said a further 3,300MW of generating capacity was anticipated to be returned to service by Monday.The evening’s stage 2 load-shedding will last until 05:00 on Monday, after which the power cuts will be suspended for 11 hours.“This alternating pattern of suspending loadshedding from 05:00 until 16:00 and stage 2 loadshedding from 16:00 until 05:00 will be repeated daily until further notice,” Eskom said.
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