South Africa's state power utility Eskom said on Sunday that it would increase the hours of daily power cut for Monday and Tuesday because it lost more generation capacity over the weekend.
The beleaguered company, which runs 15 ageing coal-fired power stations, resumed more than two hours of rolling power cut on Saturday between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., after suspending it on Friday.
"On Monday and Tuesday evening, at the same times, load shedding will be implemented at Stage 3," Eskom said in a statement."Thereafter load shedding will be reduced to Stage 2 for the rest of the week." Stage 3 is a level of power cut on an eight-level system under which the utility implements a seven and a half hour rolling outage across the country. Stage 2 is a five-hour rolling blackout.
One unit at three different power stations broke down on Saturday evening, Eskom said, making a third of its capacity non-operational due to unplanned outages.Eskom warned on Wednesday that the country "desperately" needed between 4000 and 6000 MW of additional capacity and unless that demand is met, rolling blackouts will be a regular occurrence in Africa's most industrialised country.
This year, up to May 10, the utility has implemented 31 days of power cut, or load shedding as it is called locally, compared with 26 days in the same period last year.Reporting by Promit Mukherjee, editing by Ed OsmondSubscribe to our sustainability newsletter to make sense of the latest ESG trends affecting companies and governments.
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