Stage 2 load shedding today and tomorrow, night outages

LOAD shedding will be suspended at 5am today but South Africans will be hit by power cuts tonight and tomorrow night to “replenish energy reserves for the following day”.

Eskom said in a statement yesterday: “Load shedding will be suspended at 5am on Monday as Eskom has made some progress in replenishing the emergency generation reserves.

“However, due to the loss of Koeberg Unit 1 yesterday morning, we anticipate the need to utilise emergency reserves extensively during the next few days to avoid load shedding.”

“In order to achieve this, Stage 2 load shedding will be required during Monday and Tuesday nights in order to replenish the emergency reserves for the following day,” Eskom added.

It said there would be Stage 2 power cuts from 9pm to 5am on both nights.

According to the power utility, Koeberg Unit 1 tripped yesterday morning as a result of a fault on a feedwater pump, which is on the secondary plant.

The plant was shut down in accordance with standard plant operating procedures.

“The investigation into the feedwater pump fault is in progress,” Eskom said.

Eskom said that over the past 24 hours, Eskom teams have returned to service a unit each at Tukuta and Hendrina power stations, while two Kusile units have also returned to service.

Breakdowns amount to 15 813MW while planned maintenance is 4 967MW of capacity. |