Faizel Patel – 08/01/2021
Eskom has announced that it has suspended load shedding as the demand for electricity has dropped ahead of the weekend.
However, the power utility says South African’s should continue using electricity sparingly as the system remains vulnerable and unstable.
“We will use the lower demand opportunity during the weekend to continue replenishing the emergency generation reserves in preparation for the expected higher demand during the coming week. In this period, Eskom will also continue to pursue reliability maintenance as planned and previously communicated. This will continue to put pressure on the generation plant going into the week.”
Eskom says maintenance is necessary in order to improve the reliability and performance of the power stations.
“We currently have 6 060MW of capacity on planned maintenance, while another 13 206MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns and other load losses.”
Eskom says teams are working hard to return as many of these units to service as soon as possible.
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