No load shedding this weekend, but its back to stage 2 on Monday says Eskom

South Africa

Cape Town – South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, has suspended load shedding for this weekend due to anticipated “lower weekend demand”.

Load shedding will be suspended from midnight on Friday.

However, Eskom announced that stage 2 load shedding will again be implemented on Monday.

Stage 2 load-shedding is being implemented until 4 pm today and will increase to stage 3 until midnight.

The power utility said since Thursday morning its teams have returned a generating unit each at Arnot, Kendal and Kriel and two units at Tutuka power stations.

Eskom has 6,234MW on planned maintenance and 13,779MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.

Further updates will be published on Sunday afternoon, or as soon as there are any significant changes, said the power utility.
“Load-shedding is implemented only as a last resort in view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to attend to breakdowns,” it added.

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