Load shedding back to day time, Eskom announces

Load shedding

Cape  Town – Eskom has announced that it will be reinstating load-shedding during the day after it had been implementing late afternoon load shedding for some time.

The power utility said earlier last month that it would limit load shedding to night time.

It said stage 1 load-shedding will be implemented from 5am daily until Friday, increasing to stage 2 from 4pm for the afternoons and evenings.

“The increase in load-shedding is mainly due to the need to preserve emergency generation reserves and the delay in returning four generating units to service, while many running units are operating at reduced capacity due to technical faults,

‘The delay in the return of two generating units at Camden and one unit each at Kendal and Matimba power stations have contributed to generation capacity shortages.” said Eskom.

Eskom will publish further updates as soon as there are any significant changes.

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