NATIONAL NEWS - Eskom said it will downgrade load shedding to stage 2 from Thursday evening and if all goes according plan, load shedding could end by Friday.
The parastatal was briefing the media on Thursday on the current challenges it is facing which has seen load shedding ramped up to stage four during the week due to a number of breakdown in service generators.
South African is currently on stage 3 load shedding.
Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said the sytem is recovering, which will result in the downgrade of load shedding.
“Demand forecast for this evneing is a shade over 30,011MW. Our available capacity at 28,022MW which therefore explains why we have to maintain laod shedding stage 3 until after evening peak tonight.
“We intend to drop it to stage 2 and then by after evening peak on Friday evening we will be hoepfully in a position lift load shedding in its entirety for the weekend depending on how the sytem performs, said de Ruyter.
While Megawatt Park assured the nation that it would do everything in its power (excuse the pun) including implementing stage 8 to prevent a national blackout, energy analyst Chris Yelland warned that South Africa could be sailing precariously close to blackout.
Yelland is among dozens of netizens who have expressed concerns that South Africa’s electricity distribution has reached a crisis level.
Meanwhile, frustrated Joburg residents are often faced with additional power cuts on top of load shedding, due to local power stations being crippled under the strain of on-again-off-again power surges.
