South African state utility Eskom expects to implement 'Stage 6' power cuts until the peak electricity demand hours on Wednesday evening, its chief executive Andre de Ruyter said.
Sparks Ngwenya holds a candle as he cooks inside his shack during frequent power outages from South African utility Eskom, caused by its ageing coal-fired plants, in Pimville, Soweto, South Africa, February 20, 2022.
Eskom supplies the vast majority of power in Africa's most industrialised nation, but its ageing coal-fired power stations frequently break down.to Stage 6, requiring up to 6,000 megawatts of capacity to be shed from the national grid and translating to 10 hours a day without power for many South African households.
"By Thursday, we will then be able to start phasing that down to load-shedding Stage 4 with load-shedding Stage 3 being reached by the weekend," de Ruyter told a news conference, using a term for rolling power cuts. Eskom had received the backing of the National Treasury for diesel purchases for its open-cycle gas turbines, he said.
"We have obtained the support of National Treasury to give assurance to the banks from whom we are borrowing money to buy the diesel, that National Treasury will stand behind these loans," de Ruyter said.
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