Eskom said it will implement Stage 3 loadshedding from 14:00 on Friday until Monday at 05:00am.
Eskom said it has lost about 2, 700 Megawatts (MW) in the last 14 hours.
This includes Koeberg Unit 2, which was taken offline after being brought back on Wednesday, and two Kusile Units whose coal operations went sub-optimal as a result of adverse weather.
Bheki Nxumalo, Eskom’s Group Executive
Generation, said about 6, 200MW are expected to be restored to service by Monday’s evening
peak.
“We have had some delays in returning units that previously tripped back to the grid, as well as
to the return of three units that have been on longer-term outage that will bring back 2500MW to the grid, which will happen over the coming weeks” said Nxumalo.
Dan Marokane, Group Chief Executive of Eskom said loadshedding is a painful reminder of the past.
“We again apologise to the nation for this temporary setback. We have to keep our focus on intensive maintenance as evidenced by yearto-date (1 April 2024 to 27 February 2025) loadshedding that was suspended for 325 days (7 871 hours), compared to 32 days (2 103 hours) in the same period last year. Electricity supply was available 98% of the time, compared to just 9.6% last year, that was a result of the deep
maintenance we did in summer 2023/2024” said Marokane.