Stage 6 load shedding will be implemented from midday until further notice, Eskom announced.
"The refuelling and maintenance outage starting this week, 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 six to twelve months," Eskom said on Tuesday.
There is currently 6 392MW on planned maintenance, while another 16 318MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns. There has also been a delay in return to service of "numerous" generating units, spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha added. A generating unit each at Duvha, Grootvlei, Hendrina, Majuba and two units at Arnot Power Station, were taken offline for repairs over the past 24 hours.
Stage 2 load shedding will then be implemented daily from 16:00 throughout the night to 05:00 the following morning until further notice.The utility said that load shedding is required due to the high levels of breakdowns and the limited emergency generation reserves. A further three units at Kusile power station are offline due to October's duct failure and are expected to remain offline for months. Koeberg's unit 1, meanwhile, will generate at reduced output for the next three weeks. Eskom has 6 000 MW out on planned maintenance, with another 14 160MW out on breakdowns.
Stage 5 load shedding will be implemented during the evenings at 16:00 – 24:00 from Monday to Wednesday, and will vary between Stage 4 and Stage 2 during the day until Wednesday. Spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said this was due to a recovery in generating capacity and pumped storage dam levels. There is 4 887MW out on planned maintenance, while another 15 320MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns"Stage 4 load shedding was implemented at 05:26 this morning until further notice," spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said.
Load shedding has hit a record 159 days thus far. The utility’s forecast for the rest of summer and winter next year predict even more load shedding and diesel spend.
_Business It is mis-management or a hunger for control, why else would there be 'free time' like Christmas day/before elections, but stages as they please? We as SA'ners, no matter race or religion, should wake up. My own unrelevant/unbiased opinion.
_Business Why keep saying eskom say ANC
_Business I am amazed that nobody in the leadership of govt has a coherent and workable plan to combat this calamity. Cyril needs to be dragged to account to public and media,and the chemist and overweight energy minister should be fired immediately.
_Business The lord and eskom work in mysterious ways.
_Business So strange that on the 25th and 26th there was no blackouts, now suddenly there's more breakdowns.. Fuck off and its so strange most of the people are on holliday on the roads but theres breakdowns and blackouts, 🤬✊🏿👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻well done keep on steeling and vandilize the machinery.
_Business Eskom will pay Dstv this month we didn't watch anything 😭😭🙄😏
_Business How about Wraps up mmn
_Business Not news anymore. Business as usual?
_Business Embarrassing
_Business Eskom need to admit to fucked up and allow the private sector in to rebuild the power utility. TENDERPRENEURS won't agree.
_Business With Eskom firmly in syndicates hands, technological advanced equipment and appliances will be worthless sooner than you think. The people want yo choose their service providers. Clean power now!BOYCOTT ESKOM, STOP PAYING A BROKEN CRIMINAL POWER PROVIDER.
_Business Reductive and useless Government SH!T Eskom_SA
_Business once people start losing their jobs the storm will clear.
_Business ...what...? No whitey to blame anymore...? Shem...sit in the dark you vote for comrades.
_Business
_Business Always breaking down
_Business Nothing new... Same old, same old!!
_Business Wtf!
_Business Tsek
_Business The masses wanted decolonisation
_Business This is an insult to Engineers... So the system behaved on Christmas. 😂🤣😅😂 Please think of another excuse or list what broke down. Liars!!!
_Business A relatively small number of soldiers from the army have been sent to power stations. Send in the whole army. This is an emergency. chrisyelland
_Business If is not break down is low generation capacity 🤦🚮
_Business Call Maselspoort Eef
_Business 😂😂😂😂As we had predicted
_Business I have a question. If our grid was so unstable how are eskom still able to provide uninterrupted electricity to our neighbours? Surely they would need to be loadshed too?
_Business HOW F much longer must we tolerate this, where is the will and determination. Eskom is crippling South Africa. We can’t continue like this and no we can’t compare ourselves to Zimbabwe- we have to do better.
_Business So stage 4 is now the norm, we dont even stick on stage 2 for long anymore. Horrifying how quick it got so bad.
_Business My fellow South Africans, there is something very worrying happening at Eskom_SA which GwedeMantashe1 CyrilRamaphosa and the MYANC do not want us to know. The fact that there are breakdowns daily, leading to 200 days of loadsheding suggests that there is a crisis
_Business Eskom_SA it's a joke, CyrilRamaphosa sell Eskom_SA quickly we tired of living like this
_Business It's amazing how all the systems behaved on Christmas day, which was probably one of the higher usage days for cooking.
_Business Given a chance to say something to South Africa leaders :God is watching you,he might punish you at where your heart finds love and comfortable. You won't understand but you will paying all sins. You have families and relatives that you love the most.
_Business 💩🖕💩🚮
_Business There's no breakdowns at Eskom it's too much corruption and not capable to repair
_Business These breakdowns .... Smh
_Business Tobetsa🕺
_Business So how come we didn't have black outs on Christmas day whereby we were all at home cooking almost at the same damn time... We're too calm about this
_Business They are moving us back to Stage 6 ganyane ganyane😏
_Business So there were mo breakdowns on Christmas eve
_Business Journalists are captured by Ramaphosa admin. If it was Zjma yerrr.
_Business ANC +Eishkom =Mafia
_Business Man made load shedding
_Business Witchcraft 😫
_Business Old news they should try something new
_Business You get Loadshedding at Stage2 the power returns and it's now Stage4! Mncm.
_Business Viva anc fokkers
_Business Christmas is over😭😭😭
_Business I think the terrible smell coming from Eskom & their stories is really affecting my sinuses now..
_Business Are these genuine Breakdowns or more Sabotage?
_Business They think we are stupid, surely
_Business This is just normal.
_Business I dont understand how news outlets and journalists aren't properly investigating whats really going on at eskom. Shocking journalism in SA
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