S.Africa: Black Failure never stops: Load shedding to escalate to Stage 6 this week as repairs delayed

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All the latest news and analysis on load shedding, power and the national grid. "This can be alleviated if all consumers switch off heating and high consumption appliances during the peak hours.

" The loss of capacity at the three Kusile units and the Koeberg unit together removed 3 080MW – equivalent to three stages of load shedding – from the grid.

14 April 14:18 Eskom said due to lower weekend demand, load shedding will be reduced to Stage 5 from 05:00 until 16:00 on Saturday. Eskom said breakdowns are currently at 17 093MW of generating capacity, while the generating capacity out of service for planned maintenance is 6 392MW.

13 April 16:45 "The extension of load shedding is caused by further breakdowns of generation units and continued shortage of generation capacity due to delays in returning to service some generation units," the power utility said. headtopics.com

There have been delays in returning a unit to service at Kendal, Lethabo, Medupi and Tutuka power stations. Stage 6 load shedding to continue until further notice 12 April 15:07

Source: https://headtopics.com/za/eskom-live-load-shedding-to-escalate-to-stage-6-this-week-as-repairs-delayed-business-38643495

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