Power utility Eskom has announced that stage 5 load shedding will continue until the weekend.
It said rolling blackouts will be on the stage 5 schedule until 05h00 on Saturday morning, with further updates expected on Friday .
Speaking to Bloomberg, the minister said that “we will have load shedding for a while in South Africa, not of the order that we’ve seen in the recent past”.Eskom and the Department of Public Enterprises have agreed to the urgent procurement of energy on the open market from independent power producers to address energy shortfalls.
Wasted use, like the lighting of office buildings at night, can be addressed. At the same time, measures like the later start of ventilation and air conditioning in the mornings and an earlier end in the evenings can also help save electricity.
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