Cape Town – Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has informed the Cabinet about Eskom’s intensified maintenance plan, leading to higher levels of load shedding.
The heightened maintenance efforts are focused on ensuring the long-term sustainability of Eskom’s power plants.
“The concerted implementation of the planned fleet maintenance programme has resulted in increased stages of load shedding in recent days.
“The implementation of Stage 6 load shedding in the last week was a regress from the trends that prevailed in the previous weeks of lower stages of load shedding,” Ntshavheni said while briefing the media following this week’s Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
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She said that the current increase in load shedding is a short-term measure as Eskom works towards achieving sustained and reduced levels of load shedding in the near future.
“The current implementation of increased stages of load shedding is a short-term phase as Eskom prepares for more sustained and lessened stages of load shedding in the not-so-distant future”.
“The Minister in the Presidency for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, will continue to update the nation on the progress being made to address the current electricity challenges and the steps being taken to ultimately end load shedding,” she said
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
