South Africa
Light at end of tunnel as Eskom suspends power cuts─── 14:15 Fri, 07 Oct 2022
Eskom has announced that load-shedding will be suspended at 05:00 on Saturday.
The embattled power utility has continued to implement varying stages of load-shedding throughout the month of September and the first week of October, blaming it on a shortage of generation capacity and breakdowns at power stations.
Eskom spokesperson, Sikonathi Mantshantsha, says the utility anticipates lower demands over the weekend, which made it possible to suspend load-shedding.
"While the generation capacity constraints persist, the suspension of load-shedding is possible due to the anticipated lower weekend demand, as well as adequate levels of emergency generation reserves.
“Since yesterday afternoon, a generation unit each at Camden, Grootvlei, Hendrina, Kendal, Kriel, Majuba and Tutuka power stations have returned to service," says Mantshantsha.
This while a generating unit at Duvha Power Station was taken offline for repairs.
The struggling utility is currently running at 5 512MW on planned maintenance, while another 13 484MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.
