Cape Town – Eskom has announced that stage 4 load shedding is set to be implemented from 09:00 on Wednesday to 05:00 on Friday.
Thereafter load shedding will be lowered to stage 2 until 05:00 on Monday morning, the power utility said in a statement.
“It is with a great deal of disappointment that Eskom has to inform the public that further failures overnight of generation units has necessitated the implementation of Stage 4 load shedding starting at 09:00 this morning. Unfortunately, this has to continue until 05:00 on Friday. Thereafter load shedding will be lowered to Stage 2 until 05:00 on Monday morning,” said Eskom.
It continued: “Overnight a unit each at Kendal, Duvha, Camden and Kusile power stations tripped. Since then, we have returned four units to service. However, these units still need to ramp up to full output, which necessitates a high usage of emergency generation reserves today. This being the fourth day of extremely high diesel usage, the emergency reserves are being depleted faster than can be replenished”.
Due to further failures of generation units, Stage 4 loadshedding will be implemented from 09:00 today until 05:00 on Friday in order to manage the emergency reserves pic.twitter.com/OMmqjLKIUX
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) March 9, 2022
Eskom had initially announced on Monday that it had implemented stage 2 load shedding from 21:00 until o5:00 on Wednesday. It further extended it to Saturday morning.
The electricity utility apologised for the implementation of load shedding, saying it “will continuously review the situation and act appropriately as circumstances change”.
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Compiled by Sinothando Siyolo
