Load shedding to be reduced ahead of Christmas

South Africans will be getting a slight reprieve from load shedding next week after Eskom announced that it will be reduced to stage 5 at 5am on Monday.

In a further reduction, load shedding will be moved to stage 4 at 5am on Tuesday and is expected to stay at this level for the rest of the week.

Eskom added that it will provide updates if there are significant changes to the grid.

Stage 6

Stage 6 load shedding was implemented on Friday morning after the breakdown of eight generating units.

This had led to the use of open cycle gas turbines and pumped storage generation.

“The inability to pump water overnight at the pumped storage schemes and the low diesel levels has resulted in critically low emergency reserves which needs to be conserved.”

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ANC conference

On Saturday, City Power confirmed it had received a request from police to exclude Nasrec from load shedding. Nasrec is where the ANC is holding its 55^th national elective conference.

The request for a reprieve from load shedding at Nasrec was until the conference is set to end on 20 December 2022.

City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena said the lack of load shedding at Nasrec was for security reasons.

“It is due to the presence of high security risk persons such as the president of the country, deputy-president, and the government ministers,” he said.

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