Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter says the power utility is seeing a steady recovery in its systems, with several big energy units coming back online as scheduled.
reduce load shedding from stage 3 to stage 2 this eveningforecasts lifting load shedding in its entirety on Friday eveningEskom moved to stage 3 load shedding on Wednesday at 22h00. This comes after six generating units were returned to service over the last 24 hours, and three more are expected to return on Thursday.
The power utility has warned the country could have more than 100 days of electricity blackouts this year because of outages. However, it has downplayed any fears of a total blackout across the country. “We have this tool at our disposal. We have significant buffer capacity in the load shedding system before we approximate even close to a total system blackout. We are currently sitting at Stage 4, the load shedding system provides for a further reduction in load [up to] Stage 8. We still do have headroom in the system to allow us to avoid a total blackout.
“So I would caution against speculation in this regard. I would caution against fear-mongering and stoking speculation and fear in this regard. We do have plans in place. We have the capability of recovering, and we do not anticipate this as a credible risk at this point in time,” he said on Wednesday.
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