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. Where we find ourselves now, it looks like a steep hill. We have accepted the challenge to improve EAF of our fleet.
_Business ANC AND ESKOM IS FORGETTING THAT BEFORE SOUTH AFRICANS WERE HUMANS FIRST AND HUMAN NATURE CAN OVERRIDE LAW , IF PUSHED.
_Business And I bet the CEO's bonus will also jump by a factor of 6 seeing as how he can do no wrong & everything is the fault of those he leads I'm told to believe ...
_Business The struggle continues . Soon we will be free of this electricity .Viva
_Business Can they really count to six
_Business You are fucking killing us. 8 hours of loadshedding. I've got a business to run and people to feed. Hungry children that You the ANC government are failing.
_Business Check the schedule, it's stage 8. It's actually blackouts.
_Business Good 👍
_Business This Cyril guy must really Voetsek he's incompetent 🙄
_Business Good job Andre 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😏
_Business I’m so over all of this Loadshedding nonsense. It just doesn’t make sense anymore. You go from continuous stage 2 through to stage 4 and now stage 6. Good luck to all South Africans.
_Business thisIsFailure
_Business Imagine a CEO that has no clue about generating electricity but he is hired . When will he be fired ?
_Business De Ruyter must resign with immediate effect. He failed South Africa with flying colours
_Business Eskom, please shut the country down by switching ALL POWER OFF. Since our country's economy is fucked through & through, you insist on a thirty eight percent increase knowingly that South Africans cannot afford it.
_Business And yet certain people will still blame apartheid and other factors. Well done ANC we are on the verge of total blackout, The people who voted for you will be the people who suffer the most. Never forget it is Jan Skuld.
_Business So this is where the unions protect the criminals sabotaging Eskom, and there's Jack squat that can be done. Also looks like more tenders will be awarded to friends and family to steal more money and dig this country deeper into the manure. We're now drowning in shits creek.
_Business The only way to make money in South Africa now is crime and prostitution.
_Business the truth is we have people in government who knows absolutely nothing. they promise people everything for free & grants, they allow millions of illegal foreigners to our country, all this together is recipe for chaos, anarchy & disaster. sa won't survive this madness.
_Business Can't wait for stage 7
_Business what are eskom contractors fixing because everything seems broken. things aren't getting better but WORSE. the contractors are just chowing the money for nothing. who are these contractors?
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_Business Whenever there’s a case against Cyril, we end up with stage 6 or random shooting, multiple rapes or ...... there’s always something
_Business Bathong ka December😭
_Business It jumps,,, but we have coal, Fucked up government
_Business Let's keep quite, bcuz when we complain nithi De Ruygter this and that...
_Business They might as well tell everybody to ditch eskom.
_Business De ruyter is angry with u people for attacking his brother for PhalaPhalareport PhalaPhalaFarm so he switches power and network off so that u dont tweet what he deems as nonsonso about his colleague. p.s they work for tthe same boss
_Business The exports of coal should be stopped until our grid is stable.... Clearly sikhona isandla semfene
_Business Eskom is unfixable! Stage 7 tomorrow! And still South Africans tolerate this shit! They tell lies!!!we are heading for a blackout switch off two smelters!!!that should at least add MW! Eskom is broken!!
_Business Think this is self sabotage to justify Cyril's brother in law's Rainbow Energy company buying out Eskom once he leaves the ANC. 👀
_Business Our ANC government.
_Business Can we fastforward to 2024
_Business Pay customers turning to Solar. Non paying customers will be their only clients. I think the shit is definitely hitting their fan.
_Business The ANC is repulsive 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮yall are fucking up our economy
_Business Thanks to Ramadollar $
_Business Our President mandate was to hand over these assets to private hands so, Acceleration to privatisation is in the last gear now...threat of him being removed from a driving seat was identified.
_Business Who is supplying diesel to Eskom?
_Business Lead us Matamela Leaders South Africans 😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤡🤡🤡🤡
_Business Keep defending Cyril Ramaphosa who is busy fighting his personal battles and leaving out the main duty.
_Business Now i think Eskom doesnt have energy crisis, just the ANC officials made this loadshedding thing so that they can get enough money through the sales of diesel since our government gets most of the money from levies. Just think about it.
_Business De Ruyter is useless. The most useless CEO in the history of Eskom
_Business We are screwed without Vaseline 😭
_Business The government will continue to delay the necessity for alternative sources to this problem. It could implement solar power as a choice for consumers that we can pay. But no, they continue to flog this dying horse of a company. All for money.
_Business I wish we can stage 10 for the whole of 2023so that MYANC voters will open their eyes
_Business Go to stage 12 if possible please 🙏
_Business Its all part of the plan. WEF's plan.
_Business Jump to stage 10 already
_Business What did Cyril fix since he come into power? 0
_Business Loadshedding
_Business Beautiful. I'm sure you are proud of your bestie, Ramaphosa's performance. Since you protect him day and night.
_Business It’s time the nation stands up against this senseless looting that the MYANC and all its fat cat cronies have undertaken unabated! We need to send them packing through earlyelections CyrilRamaphosa you have failed your mandate to the county. Our_DA Action4SA HermanMashaba
_Business And then Cyril ramaphosa is the best president🤷🏿♂️
_Business Enough is enough time to stand up against this shit!!!!
_Business Guys let’s riot. 😑
_Business We are coming for you Eskom_SA prepare yourself to be bombed
_Business The is no better time to switch to solar South African then now, contact us for a quotation at 0731159351 at infokhalangagroup.co.za WE BEAT ANY WRITTEN quotation
_Business They must just shut this country down because we are doomed under the ANC
_Business Eskom and this ANC so called government can go to blazers for all I care. They are a useless bunch.
_Business Stage 6 in Townships is the whole day without Electricity
_Business It can jump to stage 1000 already!
_Business Another 'GOOD' ANC story!
_Business South Africans don't respect themselves yaz 😩 CR17BankStatements PhalaPhalaFarmGate
_Business ANC made it possible... If they fail to fix eskom problems what makes us think they can fix unemployment crisis in the country?...
_Business
_Business Electricity 💡 600units = R300 (Eskom only) NB : NO UPFRONT PAYMENTS
_Business Thanks to Anc
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_Business What happens in stage 6? It was already bad at whatever stage we were at, is it no electricity the whole day? Where are those damn stations Ramaphosa said he’d build before he took to power? Yho Yessesss we’re in hell😭😭🫠
_Business because of incompetence. Bliksems.
_Business Why stage 100 once?
_Business Fixing Corruption instead of doing the actual job the man was hired for
_Business The government is trying hard to show us that we need the green energy and cancel the coal. The loadshedding does not exist but it is a build up of excuses to move to the one they want hence the CEO wont b fired coz he is right within his mandate
_Business It is clear that the ANC are playing polical games with our livelihood dey don't care they've neglected thier soul duty to work for the poeple and we must not forget that as citizens we have the power DenzilTaylor someone must account MYANC
_Business LeadUsMatamela Renew22 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
_Business The Eskom faction is fighting so hard..
_Business Breaking News : Eskom_SA jumps to stage shit, 🤬
_Business South Africans should go riot at government officials houses, they're the ones enjoying electricity 24/7... Probably don't even pay for it too.
_Business I mean WTF 😡😡
_Business They want to privatize it before their investment Cyril is removed ,we won't allow that ,after we done with Cyril Andre will be charged with high treason ,for trying to destroy a national key point
_Business Phalaphala must go
_Business 🤬🤬🤬🤬 Eskom_SA
_Business 😭😭
_Business Eskom_SA yall might as well just switch our lights of permanently at this point.
_Business ☠️☠️
_Business Ramaphosa and de ruyter can all poes off
_Business KudaCultur u will mam homeboi
_Business Government and ESKOM not getting on top of this. Don’t think government is treating this with the urgency required. Mantashe rubbing his hands with the prospect of power ships. Think we’re being lied to from all sides
_Business Let it jump to stage 20 once
_Business Strange how this country is still standing. Corrupt government (including President) that is hell-bent at breaking every infrastructure that exists
_Business The Gwede Mantashe tells us that the country will plumit into crisis when Ramaphosa is gone as if we are not in a crisis already!
_Business Thee most useless fucking government on this planet.
_Business Sweet Jesus! Can we please stop fuckin' around over some cattle farmer and sort this fuckin' electricity disaster out! We are are going to implode! FFS!
_Business What a joke…Cyril “we’ll better the country” loll…😂
_Business WTF they f!cken Phala Phala
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_Business Viva second term viva
_Business This is a bloody joke man. Completely and utterly unacceptable. If you carry on pushing people, The June July riots will not compare to the rage that will be unleashed upon the country
_Business The ANC has ruined South Africa. The voters are to be blamed as well.
_Business In SA we really tolerate marete straight. For Fak sake eskom is the only source of electricity and we pay for that...yaahh neehhh...
_Business Ja neh....and we just have to accept that!
_Business 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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