Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has again appealed for electricity to be used sparingly as the power utility battles to keep the lights on in South Africa amid Stage 6 blackouts on Sunday. Eskom escalated rolling blackouts to Stage 6 this morning due to a continued loss in generating capacity.[…]
LOCAL Eskom says the sudden tripping of three Kendal Power Station units on Tuesday morning has forced the power utility to implement Stage 4 blackouts across South Africa “A sudden tripping of three Kendal Power Station units (1 920MW maximum generating capacity) has forced the implementation of Stage 4 loadshedding[…]
LOCAL Eskom has warned it may be lights out on Monday evening. The power utility said there was a chance that stage 2 load-shedding may be implemented between 6pm and midnight. This was because of a shortage of generation capacity. “The breakdowns of a generation unit each at Kriel, Majuba[…]
LOCAL Stage 2 load-shedding may be implemented from Wednesday afternoon. Eskom said the breakdowns of a generation unit each at the Majuba and Tutuka power stations and two at Kriel power station, have put a severe strain on the power generation system. The power utility said it was also experiencing[…]
LOCAL Eskom said it would escalate scheduled power cuts to “Stage 4” from 4 pm until midnight on Thursday due to a shortage of generation capacity. The utility had earlier announced “Stage 2” power cuts during the evening peak hours for Wednesday and Thursday, which would have required up to[…]
LOCAL Eskom Chief Executive Officer, Andre De Ruyter, says it will take several weeks for the power utility to fully recover from the recent strike action. Stage four rolling blackouts are currently being implemented until midnight. Eskom has been implementing power cuts due to losses in generation capacity following the recent impact of[…]
LOCAL While some generation units have been returned to service over the past few days, this is not sufficient to suspend load-shedding as other generation units had to be taken offline for repairs, says Eskom. “Load-shedding will therefore continue being implemented at varying stages during the next few weeks while[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert With South Africa constantly being left in the “dark”, economists fear that this might further cripple the economy. On Tuesday Eskom announced that the country will be moved to stage six loadshedding as the ailing power utility faced several issues such as a strike amongst its[…]
More power cuts are expected this week. Eskom says Stage 4 load shedding will continue from 5am on Monday morning until midnight on Wednesday. The power utility says this is due to what it termed an unlawful and unprotected labour action at a number of its power stations, causing delays[…]
LOCAL Eskom says there is a possibility that the stage of rolling blackouts may have to be escalated at short notice, depending on the state of the plant and the availability of labour. The blackouts moved from stage 2 to stage 4 on Friday and this is expected to persist until Wednesday, for[…]
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