Head Topics

South Africa's Eskom to reduce power cuts on Friday

  • 📰 SowetanLIVE
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 11 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 8%
  • Publisher: 63%

South Africa Headlines News

On Wednesday Eskom ramped up power cuts to 'stage 4' because of exceptionally high demand and breakdowns at its coal-fired power stations.

On Wednesday Eskom ramped up power cuts to"stage 4" because of exceptionally high demand and breakdowns at its coal-fired power stations, but from 8am until 10pm on Friday it will reduce them to"stage 3," which requires up to 3,000 megawatts to be shed from the grid.

"In order to replenish the emergency generation reserves, load-shedding will then continue into the weekend," Eskom said in a statement, adding that the system remains unreliable and vulnerable.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 13. in ZA

South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Eskom to downgrade load-shedding to Stage 3 on FridayEskom will reduce load-shedding to Stage 3 from 8am until 10pm on Friday.
Source: eNCA - 🏆 49. / 51 Read more »

Eskom board backs CFO Oberholzer in Parly over alleged conflict of interestJan Oberholzer was accused of corruption, dishonesty, conflict of interest, and abuse of power in relation to alleged links to Eskom contractor, Stefanutti Stocks.
Source: ewnupdates - 🏆 30. / 53 Read more »

SA vehicle sales take another year-on-year plunge in August, as Eskom hinders recoverySouth Africa’s new vehicle market is not showing any significant signs of recovery, despite the slight month-on-month sales increase. Let’s take a look at what went down in August: IOLmotoring
Source: IOL - 🏆 46. / 51 Read more »

Eskom warns loadshedding could last for the rest of this week.Eskom_SA has warned that Loadshedding could last for the rest of the week as a result of more constraints on the generation system.
Source: IOL - 🏆 46. / 51 Read more »

Eskom expects 5 generating units back in service today after breakdownsTen units went down at seven power stations on Sunday evening, and the power utility implemented stage two load shedding on Tuesday.
Source: ewnupdates - 🏆 30. / 53 Read more »

Eskom confirms stage 2 load-shedding from 8am on WednesdayEskom will implement stage 2 load-shedding on Wednesday.
Source: TimesLIVE - 🏆 28. / 59 Read more »