Eskom has announced it will continue with load-shedding on Tuesday, implementing stage 3 from 8am to 11pm. “Despite the generating units returning to service as planned, the emergency reserves (diesel and water) are still very low,” the power utility said on Tuesday morning.
According to Eskom’s schedule interpretation website, stage 3 increases the frequency of stage 2 by 50%. This means affected areas will be scheduled for load-shedding nine times over four days for two hours at a time, or nine times over an eight-day period for four hours at a time. Eskom also said it had held an “urgent” six-hour meeting with public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan after raising load-shedding from stage two to stage four on Monday. The stage 2 power cuts were caused initially by “generation shortages” and “constraints in diesel supply”, but the need for stage 4 came due to “a further seven generating units that tripped within a period of five hours”...
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