Eskom: Load shedding to continue until Friday

Eskom on Tuesday announced stage 4 load shedding until midnight and said it will downscale it to stage 2 thereafter until 5 am on Wednesday.

The struggling electricity supplier ramped up load shedding to stage 4 after five generators at several power stations broke down.

Eskom said stage 3 will then resume from 4 pm until midnight on Wednesday and will be repeated at the same times on Thursday.

Stage 2 will return on Friday until midnight.

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Stage 4 loadshedding will continue to be implemented until midnight, thereafter Stage 2 will be implemented until 05:00 on Wednesday pic.twitter.com/GqjAkptPc7

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) October 18, 2022

Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said: “Since yesterday morning, a unit each at Duvha, Medupi as well as three units at Kendal power stations have returned to service. A generation unit each at Arnot, Camden, Tutuka, and Kusile power stations remain out of service following breakdowns in the past 24 hours.

“We currently have 5 106MW on planned maintenance, while another 15,576MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.”

Eskom said load shedding was implemented only as a last resort in view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to attend to breakdowns.

-EWN

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