By Levy Masiteng
There is a high risk of load-shedding Stage 4 this weekend, for the first time in over 10 months.
Eskom CEO Dan Marokane said that there had been several breakdowns in its generation fleet over the past week and it had exhausted its emergency power supply.
“This is a potentially temporary setback. Load-shedding is largely behind us due to the structural improvements in our generation fleet. However, over the past seven days, we have experienced several breakdowns that require extended repair times,” said Marokane.
“This has necessitated the use of all our emergency reserves, which now need to be replenished. Consequently, we are closely monitoring the status of our current emergency reserves, and load-shedding up to stage 4 may be implemented over the weekend.”
This warning comes a day after the National Energy Regulator’s decision to approve a 12.7% electricity tariff increase for Eskom, which is much lower than their request of 36.1%.
“Approving Eskom’s tariff hike application as it is, would’ve had a devastating impact on the economy,” it said.
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