Eskom to take ‘extraordinary measures’ for local government elections - Stage four load-shedding rolled out to ensure the polls on Monday 1 November are energy secure
It comes on the back of stage“Over the past 24 hours a unit each at Medupi, Kusile and Matla power stations tripped while a unit each at Lethabo and Arnot power stations were forced to shut down. This constrained the power system further, requiring extensive use of emergency reserves and therefore, hampering the recovery of these reserves,” Eskom said.
The move to stage four, according to De Ruyter, was intentionally made to ensure that the lights stay on as South Africans go to the polls. In one case he said an Eskom operator ignored a red light signal about a unit, and as a consequence that whole unit was lost. Eskom’s aged coal-powered fleet, and its poor maintenance record and coal quality, was exacerbated this week by a failure at unit one of the Koeberg nuclear power station in the Western Cape.
“Over the next few days, both diesel … important in the course of ensuring that the lights are on and pump stations, which are used to also supply a significant number of megawatts to the system [need to be] in shape by the weekend to back up the … power stations, in any shape or form that actually might be required,” Gordhan said.
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