Eskom revealed that this week, the loadshedding schedule will be limited to evening peak periods.
Eskom reveals loadshedding schedule for this week
Eskom, in a statement, announced that stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented from 16:00 to 05:00 every evening “until further notice”.
This comes at a time when the power utility continues to battle breakdowns at power stations and for the recovery of emergency generation capacity.
“The nightly implementation of load shedding is mainly due to the need to preserve emergency generation reserves owing to a high level of breakdowns. Eskom will publish a further update as soon as there are any significant changes. Loadshedding is implemented only as a last resort in view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to attend to breakdowns,” the power utility said.
By Sunday afternoon, some 14 107MW of capacity was offline due to breakdowns with a further 4 963MW out on planned maintenance.
“[On Sunday morning] a generation unit at Kriel Power Station was returned to service while the return to service of a unit at Majuba Power Station has been delayed,” Eskom said.
Readers from these metros can check the latest loadshedding schedule below: