Eskom said on Monday afternoon it would interrupt loadshedding between 4 pm and 6 pm to ease rush hour traffic.
The national power utility is implementing Stage 2 scheduled blackouts – which sees up to 2 000 megawatt taken off the national grid – on Monday and said it would continue from 6pm to 6 am on Tuesday.
Stage 2 loadshedding will be suspended for two hours from 4 pm today, in an endeavour to ease traffic congestion. Loadshedding will then resume from 6 pm until 6 am tomorrow.
It added that the rush hour respite was a “pilot” initiative which forms part of efforts to determine an appropriate approach to loadshedding.
Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter announced last Friday that loadshedding would be a fact of life for South Africans for the foreseeable future as the power grid was strained, unreliable and unpredictable.
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Source: eNCA