Johnathan Paoli
Eskom has announced that the first load-shedding of 2024 will be implemented from Tuesday, 2 January, and said the implementation was as a result of recent unplanned loss of three generating units.
“With the current intensified maintenance aimed at improving the fleet performance, we had a setback of three generating units (2 148MW) not coming back online as anticipated,” the power utility said in a statement on Monday.
Eskom said that unplanned outages were currently at 16 231MW of generating capacity, while the capacity out of services for planned maintenance was 8 451MW, for a total of 24,682MW of capacity unavailable at the time of its statement.
The utility said Eskom teams were working tirelessly to ensure that 4 921MW of generating capacity was returned to service before the end of the week.
The utility said that its load forecast for the evening peak demand for Tuesday was
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