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 No truth is world,,, anyway thanks
_Business I foresee no consequences to this in the very near future.
_Business Woah we have reserves for emergencies? 👀 And Eishkom is considering using them bc Christmas is an emergency?
_Business Uhm... This doesn't sound like a good idea...
_Business And are we supposed to thank them?
_Business If Eskom came up with the idea, it must be a good one!
_Business Let's carry on with stage 6,no need for emergency reserves bull sh!t cause we're going to Stage 8 after that.
_Business Stage 10
_Business Ohhh now I remeber to Zumas village and the rest thats staying in the cayas🤬🤬
_Business We are paying for electricity, so where is the money going to.
_Business Which means stage 8 next week of rolling blackouts!
_Business The absolute geniuses that run this country.. just let the grid trip already and blame white people or whatever.
_Business Kak dom
_Business And the day after Christmas it will be stage 6/8 because of that!!!
_Business So that next week we go back to stage 8! Eskom is unfixable! SA no law, no electricity, no water the list is endless!
_Business Then after Christmas we'll have stage 6. No thanks they must just pretend Christmas is a normal day.
_Business Go eskom we want stage 8 for a week or so pretty please. Dont worry people wont get angry they will just complain on Twitter
_Business And then?
_Business And the funny part of all of this is that we buy electricity just for them to put us off.
_Business How much lower can we go. Been thankful for what was once normal with a first world electrical supply system. Obviously much lower. Led by people with no self respect.
_Business They must never
_Business Awwww
_Business 🖕
_Business DontVoteForANC2024
_Business and then come 2 jan hit us with stage 6
_Business Don't do us any favours.
_Business Don't do us any favours.
_Business That will be awesome
_Business So that we can have stage 8 for the next month Just keep us on stage 3 and give us proper schedules so we know what's going on. Stop punishing us
_Business 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
_Business We're going to pay for this after Christmas, mark my words.
_Business Which will result in stage 8 on the 26th....
_Business Eskom is a trash🚮
_Business Are we supposed to be excited?
_Business 🚶♀️Hope every1 is ready for total blackouts
_Business If Neo was a South African, he would've taken the BLUE pill, enjoying the Matrix when there's no loadshedding. I bet you the Oracle will never care about 'the one' since she'll be having a solar panel.
_Business So what they want? A Noddy badge for doing their job and something that we actually pay for
_Business Wish we can continue like this stage 6,stage 4 cause after that Christmas it's going down
_Business They smart actually because they will use that as a excuse to normalize stage 6 or stage 4
_Business How did we get to the point where Eskom has to use emergency reserves in the first place. Does this mean total blackout is imminent?
_Business And we shud be grateful eh? 🤔😕. I won't even keep my fingers crossed, talkless of holding my breath. Eskom is HIGHLY unpredictable. They want to raise our hopes just to dash it on Christmas day 🤦🏾♀️😒... nonsense!!!
_Business Then expect 'regrettably....stage 6 to replenish emergency reserves' nonsense
_Business Yeah right
_Business So there we go! You in fact have emergency generation capacity you can use to avoid loadshedding! Penny wise, pound foolish taking into account the unquantifiable damage done to the economy and livelihoods.
_Business Lol. Basic services as a Xmas gift. 🤡
_Business 'due to further breakdowns because the reserves are all used up we will need to implement stage 8 loadshedding' They should just continue what they're doing currently.
_Business Fuck that - keep loadshedding on Christmas who gives a fuck. CityPowerJhb what does it matter the lights are on for one day and the next day you are loadshedding at stage 8 - c’mon Eskom_SA you must be smarter than that.
_Business Mxxm
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