Stage 4 load shedding will kick in from 09:00 on Wednesday, Eskom announced.
Some 4 394MW of power generation is out due to planned maintenance, while another 16 880MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.After immediately implementing Stage 4 load shedding without warning late on Saturday night, Eskom announced that it will drop to Stage 3 on Monday morning.
"The imminent refuelling and maintenance outage, as well as the long-term operation project of Unit 1 of the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, together with the October chimney failure that has forced three generation units offline at Kusile Power Station, will further reduce available generation capacity and significantly increase the occurrence of load shedding during the next 6 -12 months.
Currently 4 423MW of capacity is out on planned maintenance, while another 16 708MW is unavailable due to breakdowns.Load shedding will be suspended at midnight on Sunday, Eskom announced. However, there will be a small reprieve in the evenings, with no Stage 3 as had previously been communicated. Thanks to diesel supplied by PetroSA, Eskom will be able to reduce load shedding to Stage 3 from Stage 4 during the night, Eskom said. This is expected to last until Monday morning.
The electric company lacks funds to run the units in order to avoid or minimize power cuts for the rest of the financial year. The increased load shedding is mainly due to the high levels of breakdowns and the depleted emergency generation reserves, Eskom said. "Changes in the stages of load shedding will be more erratic due to the absence of the buffer that is normally provided by the diesel generation capacity between generating unit breakdowns," the power utility said.
The utility, which is waiting for more details on government’s plan to take on a significant portion of its R400 billion debt, says that it is now financially untenable to burn more diesel at its Open Cycle Gas Turbines."We will be forced to implement load shedding because we don't have the money to burn diesel," COO Jan Oberholzer said at Eskom’s state of the system briefing.
There are expectations from government and Eskom’s new chair Mpho Makwana for the utility to hit a 75% energy availability factor soon."Where we find ourselves now, it looks like a steep hill … However, we need additional capacity, in order for generation colleagues to properly maintain their plants," Oberholzer said.
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Sabotage, not breakdowns. These plants are not built from plastic. There is no way everything keep breaking all the time, by itself. PrivatizeEnergySupply .
No real interest to fix this. If you have generator just remember the cANCer Gov makes more from Fuel Tax than Eskom's Vat and Tax. So why would they want you to switch of teir cash cow.
What do you expect after 30 years of B.E.E, looting and open borders.
Breakdowns everyday it's André De Ruyters fault
Fire Useless Andre De Ruyter
When does eskoms actions actually be seen as criminal? Huge price hikes with minimal delivery, its actually depressing
This means crime will be worse... In a way it's like that's indirectly the plan come to think of it! Let's skip 2023 and just to 2024 already nxn!!!
Sabotage! They need to fire and lockup the main kingpins !💀
MADNESS
Breakdowns, the story of the ANC.
Whe demand answers why did whe have loadshedding why was nothing fixed Eskdom is besug on n mens se moer te koer
This is utter Bullshit its Fucktup months of Loadshedding for what you mean to tell me nothing is being fixed 😡😡😡😡😡wheres al that miljions gone in their pockets
Disgusting
Uet useless things like protect this Andre and Cyrilka dibono..so that they are the first to break theNews that we 'upgrade' to stage 4
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Stage 4 is the new stage 1
Sizalelwe yinja endlini impela
It will be a thing of a past... Yet there are those who still defend him.
Fire andre
Ai now we are forced to live with this thing of loadshedding as if it's just normal nje🤦🏽♂️
The New Dawn 🙌🏾
To quote CyrilRamaphosa - 'progress is being made' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well done CyrilRamaphosa
I think the management has breakdowns
RamaDollar has us by our Balls... he is flexing and showing us whos boss
EskomSA can fokof!
So the fact that ADR took the most reliable unit off the grid yesterday is not newsworthy? Why are you protecting this dwis? fakenews24 voetsekanc
So fking what 🤷♂️🤬💩🧨
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