By Lee-Yandra Paulsen South Africans have recently enjoyed an unprecedented run of almost 20 days without load shedding, a rare period of uninterrupted power supply. The national power utility, Eskom, has attributed this achievement to the sustained availability of generation capacity and emergency reserves at its power stations. Energy Analyst,[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Energy Experts refuted claims that South Africa’s power crisis, with increased load shedding stages, is caused by alleged sabotage. This comes after the African National Congress’ (ANC) Secretary General Fikile Mbalula posted on platform X, formerly known as Twitter, claiming that Stage 6 load shedding is “clear[…]
By Kouthar Sambo As South Africans still grapple with the effects of load shedding, many people are looking for options to beat the blues of power cuts. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show earlier this morning, the reality is that we must prepare for load shedding for an extended period, said[…]
Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom will place the country on load shedding between stages 3 and 4 for the rest of the week. The country was plunged into Stage 6 load shedding for the most part of last week, due to power stations maintenance and a number of power units[…]
The City of Cape Town says it is in the process of implementing four strategic intervention measures to mitigate the impact of load shedding. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announced this during a weekly energy media briefing. The city is chasing its goal of ridding itself of load shedding for good in[…]
Due to some improvements in generation capacity, load-shedding will be reduced to stage 3 until further notice, Eskom says. Repairs to damaged towers from Cahora Bassa in Mozambique were completed and restored to full capacity earlier this week. On Tuesday, the electricity utility said the enforced power cuts would move between[…]
Stage 4 load-shedding will be implemented until 4pm on Monday afternoon and stage 5 until 5am on Tuesday morning. Load-shedding will be reduced to stage 3 from 5am until 4pm on Tuesday and Wednesday. Stage 4 will be implemented from 4pm until 5am on Tuesday and Wednesday. Electricity imports from[…]
Stage 4 load-shedding is being implemented from Sunday morning until further notice. This is an improvement from last week’s rolling blackouts at stage 6, which Eskom attributed to coal supply shortages as well as the now-frequent breakdowns at power stations. Eskom had hoped to move the country to stage 4 by[…]
Bakoven beach was temporarily closed to the public on Thursday due to an electrical fault at a sewer pump station the City of Cape Town said was caused by “continuous load-shedding”. City health recommended the beach, between Camps Bay and Llandudno, be closed until further notice as a precaution against[…]
Eskom has implemented 74 days of load-shedding this year, as of Tuesday. This figure refers to any day on which any load-shedding was in effect. Speaking on the 73rd day of load-shedding this year, Eskom’s COO Jan Oberholzer warned that more was to come and estimated that it would be[…]
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