On a media statement issued this evening Eskom said “due to some recovery in generation capacity over the past 24 hours, loadshedding will be reduced to Stage 3 from 21:00 tonight until 05:00 on Friday. Thereafter loadshedding will be lowered to Stage 2 until 05:00 on Monday morning, as previously communicated”
Eskom appeals to all South Africans to continue helping us limit the impact of loadshedding by reducing the usage of electricity and to switch off all non-essential items.
“The emergency generation reserves have sufficiently improved to permit a reduction in the stage of loadshedding. A generation unit each at Matla, Medupi, Kusile and Camden power stations have returned to service while a unit each at Matla, Lethabo and Arnot power stations were taken offline for repairs during the same period. Two other units are expected to return to service today while another five generation units are expected to be back in service by Monday afternoon.” – spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said on Thursday.
Total breakdowns amount to 13 942MW while planned maintenance is 7 136MW of capacity.”
Earlier in the week, Eskom announced Stage 4 load shedding. This was due to failures of generation units at Duvha, Camden, Kendal and Kusile.
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