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Tens of thousands of prepaid electricity users scrambled to meet the 24 November deadline for Eskom’s Token Identification (TID) Rollover project, with one death reported in Orlando, Soweto. Three days before the deadline, hundreds of people queued at Eskom offices in Soweto seeking help to upgrade their prepaid meters, stay on the grid and avoid […]
Eskom is threatening to cut off electricity to Midrand, Joburg CBD, Mnandi, Cresta and other areas as its R4.9-billion debt row with City of Johannesburg explodes. Johannesburg is also leading the charge with Gauteng metros against Eskom’s tariff hike proposal of 36.15% in 2025. Eskom’s unprecedented threat to cut power supply to South Africa’s […]
A fire broke out at Kriel Power Station’s s Unit 6 on Sunday evening. The station is located in Mpumalanga, a coal-fired power plant. Kriel has six 500MW units for a total installed capacity of 3,000MW with a turbine maximum continuous rating of 36.90%, according to Eskom. Videos on the social media site, X (formerly […]
Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 6 load-shedding from 12:00 (noon) on Wednesday “until further notice.” The state-owned power utility said this is due to a high number of breakdowns since midnight, and the need to strictly preserve the remaining emergency generation reserves. “Eskom will publish a full statement in due course,” it […]
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has had an urgent meeting with Eskom board members to find money to buy diesel supplies in an attempt to avoid higher levels of load shedding. Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan met with the Eskom chair Mpho Kakwana on Sunday evening (20 November) to discuss immediate issues facing […]
Power utility Eskom says that stage 2 load shedding will be implemented from 09h00 on Tuesday (8 November) and run until further notice. This follows further breakdowns at its power stations, along with delays in returning other units back to service. The group had initially planned to only implement load shedding during the evening peak […]
Unless South Africa aggressively invests in renewable energy and relaxes air quality standards, Eskom’s models show it might need to implement stage 15 load-shedding. This was the warning from Eskom CEO André de Ruyter, who spoke at the Africa Renewables Investment Summit in Cape Town, News24 reported. “Stage 15 load shedding. I don’t want to know […]
“Following the tripping of a generation unit each at Kusile and Kriel power stations, Stage 6 loadshedding was implemented effective 04:16,” said Eskom. Eskom has ramped up load shedding to Stage 6 from Sunday morning. “Following the tripping of a generation unit each at Kusile and Kriel power stations, Stage 6 load shedding was implemented […]
The risk of load-shedding between September 2022 and September 2023 is remarkably high, according to Eskom’s likely risk scenario for the year ahead. The outlook — which covers the 52 weeks ending mid-September 2023 — shows that Eskom could likely be more than 2,001MW short to meet demand and reserves during 49 of the 52 weeks. This […]
Eskom has implemented stage 4 loadshedding from 10am on Tuesday until 5am on Thursday following the sudden tripping of three power stations. In a brief statement on Tuesday, Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said: ”A sudden tripping of three Kendal power stations units (1,920MW maximum generating capacity) has forced the implementation of stage 4. This will last […]
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