No need to stick the turkey on the braai, everyone. Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe has confirmed the lights will stay on during Christmas.
In an attempt to stave off complete collapse, Eskom is supplementing its power output with expensive diesel-powered open cycle gas turbines (OCGTs).
While stage 1 allows for up to 1000 MW of the national load to be shed, stage 2 doubles that amount.
Last week, Eskom said there was a “low probability” of load shedding before 2019. They couldn’t even get to the end of the month, though.
Eskom’s total debt currently stands at a mind-blowing R419billion.
Seems like the lights will stay on this week.
An Eskom spokesperson has explained what the new “Stage 8” of load shedding would involve. Better buy some candles for Christmas…
Eskom says its generation system performance is below desired levels, thus raising the risk of load shedding for the remainder of 2018.
Here we go. The lights are going out across South Africa on Sunday, as Eskom treat us all to an impromptu schedule of load shedding.
The Nine Point Plan is aimed at addressing pressing challenges at the utility, including fixing full load losses and trips, fixing coal stock-piles issues, addressing challenges at new plants as well as fixing units on long-term forced outages, among others.
The national power grid is only expected to stabilise just before Christmas.
South Africans are still reeling from the not too distant memory of rolling blackouts which struck at the most inopportune of moments back in 2008.
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Eskom says it’s implementing a contingency plan aimed at diverting coal supplies.
Eskom says the lights may go off tonight as a result of grid maintenance.
Load shedding has reared its head again in South Africa, and Eskom aren’t exactly confident that it’ll be disappearing any time soon.
Get your candles ready South Africa – Eskom load shedding will disrupt electricity tonight between the hours of 17:00 and 22:00.
Power stations in Cape Town, Gauteng and Mpumalanga are at the mercy of their workers.
NUM has rejected Eskom’s final offer. Does this mean more load shedding?
This latest power struggle could plunge South Africa further into darkness.
Eskom winning employment awards? Surely not.
The DA says their governments will do what they can to minimise load shedding in their metros.
Seems like the blackouts will last for a little while longer.
Here we go again. Thanks, Eskom.
Blackouts are to be expected across South Africa today.