ROLLING BLACKOUTS: Load shedding resumes on Monday night, and Joburg is not exempt

power cuts and prices emerging as one of the biggest issues in the campaign for the 1 November polls –On Saturday, Eskom announced that, due to a shortage of generation capacity, Stage 2 load shedding would be implemented from 9pm on Saturday until 5am on Monday.

Following the announcement of load shedding over the weekend, City Power initially said municipal power utility customers would not experience load shedding as per Eskom’s directive. “City Power recently signed an extension of a Power Purchase Agreement with Kelvin Power Station which gave us extra up to 220MW capacity to offset at least Stage 1 and 2 imposed by Eskom.

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