Stage 4 power cuts in place until Saturday
Rolling blackouts will continue into the weekend. Eskom announced on Thursday that power cuts will continue until 5am on Saturday. Thereafter blackouts will be reduced to Stage 3 throughout the weekend.
The power utility anticipates the first unit of the Camden Power station to return to service and the remaining stations to return over the next ten days.
South Africans have been grappling with the worst blackouts this month.
Stage 4 loadshedding will continue to be implemented until 05:00 on Saturday morning and reduce to Stage 3 throughout the weekend. pic.twitter.com/wmzJuGpEls
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) September 29, 2022
Source: eNCA
In other news – Stage 15 load shedding a possibility – Eskom CEO André de Ruyter
Addressing the Africa Renewables Investment Summit (ARIS), underway here in Cape Town Eskom’s CEO André de Ruyter warned that power cuts can get worse than the suggested load shedding Stages 7 and 8 (more than 12 hours a day for millions of South Africans).
Addressing the current electricity crisis de Ruyter said “Stage 15 load shedding. I don’t want to know what that looks like,” according to The South African. Learn more
