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JOHANNESBURG – Despite Eskom’s best efforts to return additional generation units to service after the breakdowns that occurred during the week, the embattled state-owned power utility said on Sunday that it had not made sufficient progress to enable us to suspend load shedding.Eskom said in a statement that it wished to assure the public that
© Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights ReservedSouth Africa’s economic hole is so deep that it will take a long time to climb out of it. And Eskom remains a key obstacle to, and indicator of, its progress.First, recall the sheer scale of the destruction likely wrought in the second quarter of 2020, which
Eskom will once again implement stage 2 load shedding between 9am and 10pm today as the power grid remains constrained.”While Eskom teams have today and yesterday successfully returned three-generation units to service, a further three units tripped, two of which have returned,” Eskom said on Wednesday evening.According to the power utility, three generators returned to
South Africa’s power utility Eskom has announced stage 2 load shedding due to the increase in generation unit breakdowns. Load shedding is scheduled to take place from 08:00 and will continue until 22:00 with a high possibility that it may be escalated to stage 3 for the evening peak. When the load shedding stages increases,
Featured image: StockThe euphoria post President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address in February—where he promised to change the trajectory of energy generation in South Africa “over the next few months”—was snuffed out with the reappearance of loadshedding and a nationwide pandemic-related lockdown.Originally published in the ESI Africa weekly newsletter on 19/08/2020Sign up for
Load shedding is threatening to bring South Africa to its knees, with the frequency and severity of cuts rapidly increasing. Here’s a hypothetical look at what will happen at Stage 8 – Eskom’s most daunting predicament.Note: This article was originally published on 12 February 2019. It has been republished after Eskom announced Stage 6 load
Rolling blackouts across the country are back on Thursday after Eskom announced it would implement stage 2 load-shedding.The power utility said there was a “high chance” it would increase load-shedding to stage 3 in the evening.Eskom cited plant breakdowns as the reason and appealed to SA to use power sparingly.After five months of lockdown, with
Stage 2 load shedding will be implemented on Thursday 13 August, following a dire decline in Eskom’s ability to generate power.As South Africans hedge their hopes on news of lighter lockdown restrictions and a reopening of the economy following almost five months under lockdown, Eskom’s operational instability still poses a great risk to the country’s
Eskom said the power system is under severe pressure and warned that South Africans should prepare for more power outages in the coming weeks.Speaking to the Cape Town Press Club, Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said more load-shedding is expected this winter.“It is likely that we will have increased load-shedding going forward. There is always
