SA faces most severe load shedding in months

South Africa is facing the most severe nationwide power cuts in months after state-owned power utility Eskom Holdings announced that it would implement Stage 6 outages — taking 6 000 megawatts of demand off the grid — from midnight Saturday until further notice.

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The increased power outages come even after Eskom returned two generating units to service, with the utility taking another two units offline, Eskom said in a statement on X.

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Saturday, 10 February 2024:

In spite of returning two generating units to service over the last 24 hours, two generating units were also taken offline. This combined with the need to replenish the pumped storage dams in preparation for the week ahead,…

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) February 9, 2024

 

“This combined with the need to replenish the pumped storage dams in preparation for the week ahead, necessitated the implementation of Stage 6 loadshedding from midnight until further notice,” according to the statement.

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