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Eskom announces another round of load shedding

7 January 2020, 6:49 PM  |
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Eskom generates more than 90% of the electricity in Africa's most industrialised economy.

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Eskom generates more than 90% of the electricity in Africa's most industrialised economy.

Eskom has announced that it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from 1am-6am on Wednesday.

The power utility says its aim is to minimise the impact on the national grid and give matriculants enough time to get home safely.

Eskom says due to a loss of additional generation capacity, it had to utilise emergency reserves to supplement capacity during the day.

#POWERALERT 2
Date: 07 January 2020

Eskom to implement Stage 2 loadshedding from 01:00 until 06:00 tomorrow morning in order to accommodate the release of matric results @SABCNewsOnline @eNCA @IOL @ewnupdates @TimesLIVE @BDliveSA @News24 @TheCitizen_News @SowetanLIVE pic.twitter.com/1Qa39P7ea3

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) January 7, 2020

The cash-strapped utility said cutting up to 2 000 megawatts (MW) of power from the national grid overnight would help it to replenish emergency reserves to meet electricity demand during daylight hours on Wednesday.

Eskom said in a statement that 13 600 MW of its 44 000 MW total nominal capacity was offline on Tuesday because of plant breakdowns.

It last implemented power cuts on Sunday.

Eskom generates more than 90% of the electricity in Africa’s most industrialised economy, but its unreliable performance is a major impediment to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s efforts to revive economic growth.

Eskom’s new chief executive Andre de Ruyter started work on Monday and will oversee a government plan to split the company into separate units for generation, transmission, and distribution to improve its performance. -Additional reporting by Reuters

 

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