Industries counting the costs from power cuts
JOHANNESBURG – Heavy
industry and intensive energy users are counting the costs of the country’s unplanned power cuts on their business operations after Eskom implemented stage 2 load shedding this week.
industry and intensive energy users are counting the costs of the country’s unplanned power cuts on their business operations after Eskom implemented stage 2 load shedding this week.
Eskom cut power supply since Wednesday – for the first time in more than six months – as generation succumbed to unplanned breakdowns at coal-fired power stations.
The struggling utility said the breakdowns, which exceeded 10 500 megawatts (MW), came as a result of a conveyor belt supplying coal to Medupi Power Station failing and five generating units and power stations in Mpumalanga experiencing leaks from boiler tubes.
Source: iol.co.za
