Energy expert, Professor Sampson Mamphweli, has sought to explain the lower stages of rolling blackouts being implemented by Eskom, saying power stations are being fixed more efficiently.
Eskom is implementing Stage 3 power cuts at night, with no load shedding during the day.
Mamphweli says, “The energy availability factor of most power stations has increased drastically, so Eskom engineers have done some good work because the biggest problem has always been the fact that when they fix some of these power stations. They fix one unit here and another breaks down somewhere else. That is still happening but to a lesser extent.”
Load shedding periods
For the evening peak periods on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, load shedding will be reduced to Stage 3 from 16:00 until midnight.
Eskom says the suspension of early morning and daytime load shedding was due to three units previously on outage being returned to service.
In the video below, Energy Expert Hilton Trollip weighs in on reduced power outages:
