Striking workers hamper efforts to keep the lights on
The key issue is the return to allow us to lift load shedding. As I said, there are about three stages of load shedding because of unlawful industrial action. That is the major factor putting us in a position that we are in now.
Eskom uses 14 litres of diesel per second per generation unit to keep the lights on. The power company said there were challenges with diesel volumes from suppliers; however, overnight diesel was delivered to some of its gas turbines, providing a bit of reserve at these power stations. A total of 13 609 megawatts units was out because of unplanned losses, while 3 104 megawatts were out on planned maintenance, he said.
De Ruyter added that the country could expect stage 6 load shedding to resume at 4pm on Friday to due inadequate capacity. He said the demand was expected to be over 30 000 megawatts for the evening, while available capacity, excluding open cycle turbines, was only 26 533 megawatts.
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