Gordhan said that overnight on Wednesday about 2,000MW of power would be returned to operation, which means that load-shedding would be downgraded from level 4 to level 3.
Then, over the course of Thursday and Friday, “a few more thousand” megawatts would be brought back online, which will see load-shedding further reduced to level 2.
“So, from the information that has been made available to us, it's clear that the election process will not be disrupted by a lack of electricity supply," he said. we will be cutting back on some of our short-term maintenance. This is in order for us to restore both our pump storage levels and diesel levels in order to to provide the added resilience to the system that the minister was referring to.
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