07 Dec 2018

UPDATE: Eskom says 13-hour load shedding risk remains high for Saturday

Allison Jeftha

Eskom terminated load shedding at 21:00 on Friday night, but the probability of stage 1 load shedding on Saturday remains high, the power utility announced.

"The probability of Stage 1 rotational load shedding remains high from 09:00 until 22:00 tomorrow (Saturday)," it said in a statement on Friday.

Stage 1 load shedding allows for 1 000 megawatts to be shed from the national grid.

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The power utility noted that load shedding would come into effect due to conserving the emergency reserves and giving its maintenance teams space to bring generating units back online.

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