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."Load shedding is being implemented due to a high number of breakdowns and the requirement to preserve the remaining emergency generation reserves while creating space to replenish the dam levels at the pumped storage schemes," Eskom said.
"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.
_Business Then this naies expect you to pay tax every month
_Business According to the loadshedding schedule Soshanguve Block VV was supposed to be 22:00 - 00:30.But electricity has been off since 20:20 till now, does anyone know why did that happen 🤔👀😳Eishkom
_Business The only thing Eskdom can do is to fuck of and stop this loadshedding Bullshit they can take their stage 3 to 2 and shuff it up their ass
_Business Vlieg in julle POES in Eskom_SA
_Business There's honestly no significant difference between stage 1,2, 3 and 4. Mxm
_Business Wiw not stage 1
_Business Until Ramaphosa is out of office there will be not load shedding
_Business We don't care'
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